Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…

What is the purpose of the witch's second visit to the smith?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose, second visit, witch · What happens: be, purpose, visit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 444 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Ivashko's voice, but he tricks Alenka and escapes up an oak» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 visit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visit	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 witch	case
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 visit	amod
10	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 smith	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 smith	det
13	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visit	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the purpose of the witch's second visit to the smith		tree rules
2	purpose		the witch's second visit to the smith		nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
3	visit		the witch	to the smith	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

To obtain a new voice and iron teeth in place of her broken ones and the lost tooth

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 obtain	mark
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 teeth	cc
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teeth	compound
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 voice	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 ones	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ones	nmod:poss
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 place	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tooth	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tooth	det
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tooth	amod
18	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive	a new voice and iron teeth	place of her broken ones and the lost tooth	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voice=Theme
2	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To obtain iron teeth in place of her broken ones so she can chew the oak

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 obtain	mark
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	compound
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 obtain	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 place	case
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 ones	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ones	nmod:poss
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	nmod
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 chew	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chew	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 chew	aux
14	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 obtain	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 oak	det
16	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive		iron teeth	place of her broken ones	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Theme
2	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	chew	can	she	the oak		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To obtain iron teeth in place of her broken ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 obtain	mark
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	compound
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 obtain	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 place	case
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 ones	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ones	nmod:poss
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive		iron teeth		place of her broken ones			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Theme
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

To get new teeth to replace the broken ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teeth	amod
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 replace	mark
6	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 replace	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		new teeth	tree rules
2	replace	to-infinitive	new teeth not said here	the broken ones	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
3	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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