Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1:…

What was the stated consequence of Anna's riddle for an unsuccessful suitor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Anna · What happens: state, be, riddle · To what, where: stated consequence

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 riddle	case
7	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 riddle	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Anna	case
9	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 suitor	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 suitor	det
12	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 suitor	amod
13	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 riddle	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the stated consequence	of Anna's riddle for a unsuccessful suitor	tree rules
3	riddle		Anna		for a unsuccessful suitor	nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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

Decapitation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decapitation	decapitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Decapitation carried out publicly in the square at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decapitation	decapitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
4	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 square	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry out	past	Decapitation			the square	dawn	publicly property	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Banishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banishment	banishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Enslavement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enslavement	enslavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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