Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1:…

Which water did Vikhor habitually consume prior to his defeat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: water, Vikhor · What happens: consume, defeat

This is exam question 1 of lesson 462 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1: Prince Ivan defeats the whirlwind Vikhor and sets out to woo Anna the Fair» 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 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consume	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consume	aux
4	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 consume	nsubj
5	habitually	habitually	ADV	_	6 consume	advmod
6	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 defeat	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 prior	fixed
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 defeat	nmod:poss
10	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consume	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 consume	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	past · do-support	which water					prior Vikhor's defeat; habitually property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	defeat		Vikhor						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

A cup of bitter ale brewed by the old witches of the northern forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ale	case
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ale	amod
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod
6	brewed	brew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ale	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 witches	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witches	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 witches	amod
10	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brewed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
13	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 forest	amod
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 witches	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brew	participle		bitter ale not said here				by the old witches of the northern forest	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The Spring of Wisdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Spring	det
2	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Wisdom	case
4	Wisdom	Wisdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Spring	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Water of Strength

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Water	det
2	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Strength	case
4	Strength	Strength	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Water	nmod

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

Option 4

The Water of Strength drawn from the well at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Water	det
2	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Strength	case
4	Strength	Strength	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Water	nmod
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle · passive		the Water of Strength		the well	dawn		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from well=Initial_Location

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