Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…
Which object, when cast upon the open plain, caused high mountains to arise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: cast, cause, arise · To what, where: open plain, object
This is exam question 1 of lesson 446 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Prince Ivan escapes his sister and is weighed against her» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cast | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 cast | advmod |
| 5 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 object | acl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 plain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plain | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plain | amod |
| 9 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cast | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mountains | amod |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 caused | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 arise | mark |
| 15 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 caused | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | participle | the open plain | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon plain=Destination | |||||
| 2 | cause | participle · passive | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | arise | to-infinitive | which object not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 right answer
The brush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brush | det |
| 2 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The silver mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mirror | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mirror | compound |
| 3 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The handkerchief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 handkerchief | det |
| 2 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The handkerchief that made a lake when waved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 handkerchief | det |
| 2 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 waved | advmod |
| 8 | waved | wave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the handkerchief | a lake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material lake=Product | ||||
| 2 | wave | participle | the handkerchief not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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