Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…

Which description best characterises the wife in the Grodno skazka?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description · What happens: characteris · To what, where: wife, Grodno

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 description	advmod
4	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Grodno	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Grodno	det
9	Grodno	Grodno	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obl
10	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	9 Grodno	dep
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which description	the wife		the Grodno			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

She hides the coins from her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coins	det
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hides	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 husband	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	She	the coins				from her husband	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent coin=Patient from husband=Beneficiary

Option 2

She gives the money away to strangers without knowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 gives	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 strangers	case
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	obl
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 knowing	mark
9	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gives	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	present	She	the money	strangers				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to stranger=Recipient
2	know	gerund	She not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She gives the money away unwittingly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 gives	compound:prt
6	unwittingly	unwittingly	ADV	_	2 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	present	She	the money				unwittingly property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 4

She refuses all gifts and gives the money to the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refuses	nsubj
2	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gifts	det
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 refuses	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gives	cc
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 refuses	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	She	all gifts					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
2	give	present	She not said here	the money	the church				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to church=Recipient

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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