Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the y…

What became of the whirlwind after its defeat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: whirlwind · What happens: become, defeat

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 whirlwind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whirlwind	det
5	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 defeat	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 defeat	nmod:poss
8	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past					after whirlwind's defeat	of the whirlwind	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	defeat		whirlwind						nom defeat «event 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

It melted into the cold ground

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	2 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ground	amod
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	It			the cold ground			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into ground=Product

Option 2

It flew off into the sky

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	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	It					into the sky result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result

Option 3

It vanished 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	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 vanished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish away	past	It					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It fell apart as yellow sand

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	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 sand	case
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sand	amod
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall apart	past	It					as yellow sand; apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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