Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…

On what occasion did Vasilissa feed the doll, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: feed, accord · To what, where: doll, occasion

This is exam question 3 of lesson 441 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying mother leaves a doll, and a stepmother makes Vasilissa work» 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 occasion	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 occasion	nsubj
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feed	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feed	aux
5	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feed	nsubj
6	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doll	det
8	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 according	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 narrative	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 narrative	det
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past · do-support	Vasilissa	the doll		occasion		accord the narrative	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent doll=Theme
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

When all were at rest in the great hall by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 rest	det
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rest	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 rest	case
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 When	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				all rest	day	in the great hall	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

When all were at rest in her narrow chamber at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 rest	det
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rest	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 rest	case
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 When	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 chamber	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chamber	nmod:poss
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chamber	amod
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				all rest	night	in rest's narrow chamber	tree rules

Option 3

When all were at rest in her narrow chamber at night, after the house was dark

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	17 dark	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 rest	det
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rest	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 rest	case
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dark	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 chamber	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chamber	nmod:poss
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chamber	amod
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chamber	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 house	punct
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	conj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dark	cop
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				all rest and the house		in her narrow chamber at night	tree rules
2	is	past	all rest and the house					dark property	tree rules

Option 4

When all were at rest in her narrow chamber at night, long after the fire had gone out

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 gone	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 rest	det
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rest	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 rest	case
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 chamber	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chamber	nmod:poss
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chamber	amod
9	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chamber	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 gone	advmod
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	obl
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 gone	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				all rest		in rest's narrow chamber at night	tree rules
2	go out	past · perfect	all rest				after the fire	long property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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