Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

What word did Ivan utter to command the izba to face the company?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word · What happens: utter, command, face · To what, where: izba, company · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 utter	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 utter	aux
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 utter	nsubj
5	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 command	mark
7	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 utter	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 izba	det
9	izba	izba	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 command	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 face	mark
11	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 command	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 company	det
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 utter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past · do-support	what word		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	command	to-infinitive	what word not said here	the izba	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent izba=Eventuality
3	face	to-infinitive	what word not said here	the company	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme company=Destination

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

Turn your face to me, izbushka, now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 face	nmod:poss
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 izbushka	punct
7	izbushka	izbushka	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Turn	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 izbushka	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	your face	me		now		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent face=Theme izbushka=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Izba

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Izba	izba	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Izbushka

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Izbushka	Izbushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Dvorets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dvorets	dvoret	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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