Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

What action did Ivan take upon discovering the injuries sustained by his companions?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action · What happens: take, discover, sustain · To what, where: injuries

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 take	obj
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 discovering	mark
7	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 take	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 injuries	det
9	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 discovering	obj
10	sustained	sustain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 injuries	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 companions	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 companions	nmod:poss
13	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sustained	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	action			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	discover	gerund	action not said here	the injuries		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Topic
3	sustain	participle		the injuries not said here	by Ivan's companions	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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

He went back to the hut and healed every one of the wounded men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hut	det
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 healed	cc
8	healed	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 healed	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
13	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	He					to the hut result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result
2	heal	past	He not said here	every one of the wounded men					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2

He fixed the broken bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixed	nsubj
2	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bridge	amod
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	He	the broken bridge					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

He left them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He restored the strips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 restored	nsubj
2	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strips	det
4	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 restored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	past	He	the strips					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent strip=Theme

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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