Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the y…
Which entity abducted the queen from the garden?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: entity · What happens: abduct · To what, where: queen, garden
This is exam question 1 of lesson 459 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the youngest prince tricks Vikhor and frees his mother» 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 entity | det |
| 2 | entity | entity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abducted | nsubj |
| 3 | abducted | abduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abducted | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abducted | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 abducted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abduct | past | which entity | the queen | the garden | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent queen=Theme from garden=Source |
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 right answer
Vikhor, the whirlwind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 whirlwind | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whirlwind | det |
| 4 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vikhor | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The old wind spirit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spirit | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spirit | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spirit | compound |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The whirlwind named Vikhor, who came from the far northern mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whirlwind | det |
| 2 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 whirlwind | acl |
| 4 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 10 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mountains | amod |
| 11 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mountains | amod |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | the whirlwind not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the whirlwind | the far northern mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Vikhor, the whirlwind who lived in a palace on a steep hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 whirlwind | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whirlwind | det |
| 4 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vikhor | appos |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whirlwind | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 12 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hill | amod |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the whirlwind | a palace | on a steep hill | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
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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