Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

Whose marriage does the priest arrange for the recovered daughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: marriage · What happens: arrange, recover

This is exam question 3 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	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	2 marriage	nmod:poss
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrange	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 arrange	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrange	nsubj
6	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 daughter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
9	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 daughter	amod
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrange	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 arrange	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	present · do-support	marriage					for the recovered daughter	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for daughter=Beneficiary
2	recover	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 son of the old miller in the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 miller	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miller	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 miller	amod
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 valley	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valley	det
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miller	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The hunter's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 hunter	case

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

Option 3

The wealthy merchant's from the next village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
2	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchant	amod
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 village	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 merchant	case
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The soldier's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 soldier	case

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

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