Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

Which of the following objects, when thrown by the heroine, produced a river in the tale of the Baba Yaga?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Baba Yaga · What happens: follow, throw, produce, tell · To what, where: river, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 440 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a towel and a comb» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 produced	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 objects	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 objects	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 objects	amod
5	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 produced	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thrown	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 thrown	advmod
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 objects	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 heroine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heroine	det
11	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrown	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 objects	punct
13	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 produced	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 tale	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tale	det
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 produced	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Yaga	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Yaga	det
21	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Yaga	compound
22	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tale	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 produced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	participle				by the heroine	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by heroine=Destination
3	produce	past		a river	the tale of the Baba Yaga	of the following objects	tree rules
4	tell		the Baba Yaga				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 towel	det
2	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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