Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…
According to the text, what is the consequence of spinning on a Friday?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: consequence · What happens: accord, be, spin · To what, where: consequence
This is exam question 3 of lesson 453 «Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks the Zluidni into the river, and Friday punishes a spinner» 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 text | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 text | det |
| 4 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consequence | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 consequence | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 consequence | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 consequence | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 consequence | det |
| 9 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 spinning | case |
| 11 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 consequence | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Friday | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Friday | det |
| 14 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spinning | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 consequence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the consequence | accord the text | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | the consequence not said here | friday | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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
Blisters, sore-eyes and cramps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blisters | blister | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eyes | punct |
| 3 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sore | punct |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Blisters | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cramps | cc |
| 7 | cramps | cramp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Blisters | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Whitlows, agnails and fever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whitlows | whitlow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 agnails | punct |
| 3 | agnails | agnail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whitlows | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fever | cc |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whitlows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Blindness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sore-eyes, whitlows and agnails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sore | punct |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 whitlows | punct |
| 5 | whitlows | whitlow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 agnails | cc |
| 7 | agnails | agnail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | conj |
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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