Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

Who cautioned Prince Ivan of his sister's intent during the lute performance?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: caution, intend · To what, where: Prince Ivan

This is exam question 3 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 cautioned	nsubj
2	cautioned	caution	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ivan	compound
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cautioned	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 intent	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 intent	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 sister	case
9	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Ivan	nmod
10	during	during	ADP	_	13 performance	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 performance	det
12	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 performance	compound
13	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cautioned	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cautioned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	caution speech: other	past			Prince Ivan of Ivan's sister's intent		during the lute performance		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient
2	intend		Ivan's sister						nom intent «cognition transitive»: poss=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

Witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ivan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The old wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	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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