Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

What is the final fate of the hut whose location the family attempts to recover?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, recover · To what, where: final fate

This is exam question 4 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	5 fate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fate	nmod
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 location	nmod:poss
10	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hut	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 attempts	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attempts	compound
13	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 location	appos
14	to	to	PART	_	15 recover	mark
15	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 attempts	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the final fate				of the hut the hut the hut's location's location	tree rules
2	recover	to-infinitive							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

It is finally found, but it is empty and abandoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 empty	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 empty	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 empty	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 empty	cop
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 abandoned	cc
11	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		It	finally property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	present	it		empty property	tree rules
3	abandon	participle				vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is searched for years but never located again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 searched	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	aux:pass
3	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 searched	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 located	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 located	advmod
8	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 searched	conj
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 located	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	present · passive		It			year		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location
2	not locate	participle					again		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is never found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	present · passive		It					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

It is sold away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell away	present · passive		It				away property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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