Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

Summarise the motive attributed to the old stranger in the Little-Russian tale, and indicate the consequence for the poor man.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: summarise, attribute, indicate · To what, where: motive, consequence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 452 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brother drowns Woe, then Need, Kruchina and the Zluidni turn up in other tales» 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	Summarise	summarise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 motive	det
3	motive	motive	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Summarise	obj
4	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 motive	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 stranger	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stranger	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stranger	amod
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attributed	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 tale	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tale	det
11	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Russian	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Little	punct
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tale	amod
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stranger	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 indicate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 indicate	cc
17	indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Summarise	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 consequence	det
19	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 indicate	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 man	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 indicate	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Summarise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	summarise	imperative	you not said here	the motive		tree rules
2	attribute	participle		the motive not said here	to the old stranger in the Russian tale	tree rules
3	indicate	infinitive	you not said here	the consequence	for the poor man	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot consequence=Topic

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 stranger wanted the fish, and the poor man sold his house for gold

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sold	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sold	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sold	nsubj
11	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sold	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 gold	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the stranger	the fish					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme
2	sell	past	the poor man	man's house				for gold	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme for gold=Asset

Option 2

The stranger wanted gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the stranger	gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The stranger wanted the thank you, and the poor man became rich and moved house

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thank	det
5	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 moved	cc
15	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rich	conj
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	the stranger	the thank	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thank=Theme
2	become	past	the poor man	rich house	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	move	participle	the poor man not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The stranger wanted a purse, so the poor man lost his fish and his house

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 purse	det
5	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 lost	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	nsubj
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fish	nmod:poss
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 house	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 house	nmod:poss
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the stranger	a purse					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot purse=Theme
2	lose	past	the poor man	man's fish and man's house					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Eventuality

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