Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko: swans and geese carry Ivashko…

Which of the flocks, according to the narrative, ultimately executed the rescue of Ivashko?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative · What happens: accord, execute, rescue · To what, where: rescue, Ivashko

This is exam question 3 of lesson 445 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko: swans and geese carry Ivashko home to his parents» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 flocks	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 flocks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flocks	det
4	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 narrative	punct
6	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 narrative	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 according	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 narrative	det
9	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flocks	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 executed	punct
11	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	12 executed	advmod
12	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 narrative	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rescue	det
14	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 executed	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ivashko	case
16	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 rescue	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 flocks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	execute	participle	the narrative not said here	the rescue of Ivashko	ultimately property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rescue=Patient
3	rescue			Ivashko		nom rescue «act transitive»: of=patient

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

The second flock of geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flock	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 flock	amod
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 geese	case
5	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flock	nmod

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

Option 2

Swans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The third flock of birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flock	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 flock	amod
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flock	nmod

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

Option 4

The first flock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flock	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 flock	amod
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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