Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

What is the precise age-related description given to the Leshy's hair?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, give · To what, where: precise related description, hair

This is exam question 2 of lesson 455 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 description	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 description	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 description	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 description	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 related	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 age	punct
7	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 description	amod
8	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 description	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 hair	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Leshy	det
12	Leshy	Leshy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hair	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Leshy	case
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 description	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the precise related description					tree rules
2	give	participle		the precise related description not said here	the Leshy's hair				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hair=Recipient

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

Grey, like old ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ash	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ash	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 ash	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ash	amod
5	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Grey, as a badger's, long and tangled down his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 long	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 badger	det
5	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	nsubj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 badger	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grey	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tangled	cc
10	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 long	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 tangled	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tangled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tangle down	participle		badger's back					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Grey, as a badger's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 badger	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 badger	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 badger	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 badger	det
5	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	's	's	PART	_	5 badger	case

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

Option 4

Silver-white and thin, like the frost on an old birch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 white	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thin	cc
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 frost	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 frost	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frost	det
9	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 birch	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 birch	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 birch	amod
13	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frost	nmod

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

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