Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Wise: the Prince forgets…

What condition did the King impose upon all guests attending the wedding?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, King, guests · What happens: do, impose, attend · To what, where: wedding

This is exam question 2 of lesson 437 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Wise: the Prince forgets his bride, then the doves remind him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 impose	nsubj
6	impose	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 guests	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 guests	det
9	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 impose	obl
10	attending	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 guests	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wedding	det
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attending	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	what condition			tree rules
2	impose	present	the King		upon all guests	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	attend	gerund	all guests not said here	the wedding		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wedding=Goal

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Each guest was to bring a wheaten pie and a gold coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 guest	det
2	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bring	mark
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pie	det
7	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pie	amod
8	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 coin	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coin	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coin	compound
12	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	each guest					bring property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Each guest must bring some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 guest	det
2	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	must	each guest	some bread					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Each guest was to bring a wheaten pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 guest	det
2	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bring	mark
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pie	det
7	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pie	amod
8	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	each guest					bring property	tree rules

Option 4

Every guest was to wear a crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 guest	det
2	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wear	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crown	det
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	every guest					wear property	tree rules

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