Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…

How does Ivashko reveal to the witch that he is still aware of her presence?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivashko · What happens: reveal, be · To what, where: witch

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 reveal	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reveal	aux
3	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reveal	nsubj
4	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 witch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reveal	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 aware	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 aware	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 aware	cop
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 aware	advmod
12	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reveal	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 presence	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 presence	nmod:poss
15	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 aware	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reveal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reveal	present · do-support	Ivashko		the witch				vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to witch=Recipient
2	is	present	Ivashko				still	of her presence; aware property	tree rules

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

By singing back her rhyme from the branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 singing	mark
2	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 singing	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rhyme	nmod:poss
5	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 singing	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 branches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branches	det
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing back speech: express	gerund		her rhyme		the branches			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rhyme=Theme
2	rhyme		her = she						nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

By shouting from the oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 shouting	mark
2	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 oak	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oak	det
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund				the oak			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By singing from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 singing	mark
2	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund				the tree			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By repeating her song from the oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 repeating	mark
2	repeating	repeat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 song	nmod:poss
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeating	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	gerund		her song		the oak tree			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
2	sing		her = she						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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