Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an…

Which term, occurring in the narrative, denotes the misfortune or evil personified in the old woman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: occur, denote, personify · To what, where: narrative, misfortune

This is exam question 4 of lesson 450 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an old woman, loses his hand, and runs home» 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 denotes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 occurring	punct
4	occurring	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 term	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 narrative	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrative	det
7	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occurring	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 term	punct
9	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 misfortune	det
11	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 denotes	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 evil	cc
13	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 misfortune	conj
14	personified	personify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 misfortune	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 woman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 personified	obl:agent
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	occur	gerund	which term not said here		the narrative	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in narrative=Location
2	denote	present	which term	the misfortune or evil		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot misfortune=Topic
3	personify	participle		the misfortune or evil not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

The old woman of the forest cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cottage	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cottage	compound
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	nmod

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

Option 2

Vasilisa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Likho

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Koschei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koschei	Koschei	PROPN	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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