Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daug…

To whom did the old man deliver the maiden, according to the stepmother's instructions?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man, stepmother · What happens: deliver, accord, instruct · To what, where: maiden, instructions

This is exam question 1 of lesson 457 «Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daughters freeze in the forest» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 deliver	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 deliver	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deliver	nsubj
7	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deliver	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 according	punct
11	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 deliver	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 instructions	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stepmother	det
14	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 instructions	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 stepmother	case
16	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 according	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 deliver	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deliver	past · do-support	the old man	the maiden		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme to whom=Destination
2	accord	gerund	the old man not said here		to the stepmother's instructions goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to instruction=Goal
3	instruct		the stepmother			nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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

To Morozko, Frost, beneath the great pine, as she had ordered him to do that morning

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Morozko	case
2	Morozko	Morozko	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Frost	punct
4	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Morozko	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pine	punct
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 pine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pine	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pine	amod
9	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Frost	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ordered	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 ordered	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ordered	aux
14	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Morozko	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ordered	xcomp
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 morning	det
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past · perfect	Frost	Morozko and Frost not said here	him = he				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Morozko and Frost not said here				morning		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To Morozko, Frost, beneath the great pine on the hill beyond the village fields

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Morozko	case
2	Morozko	Morozko	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Frost	punct
4	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Morozko	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pine	punct
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 pine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pine	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pine	amod
9	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Morozko	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pine	nmod
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	16 fields	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fields	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fields	compound
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pine	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To the old frost king, under a birch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	5 king	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
4	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 birch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 birch	det
9	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To Morozko, Frost, beneath the great pine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Morozko	case
2	Morozko	Morozko	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Frost	punct
4	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Morozko	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Morozko	punct
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 pine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pine	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pine	amod
9	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Morozko	nmod

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

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