Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the…

Which object did the Princess order Prince Ivan to chop into chunks for the palace cook?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, chop · To what, where: Princess order

This is exam question 1 of lesson 463 «Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the Princess ties Prince Ivan to her carriage and Katoma is left on a stump» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 order	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 order	compound
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ivan	compound
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 order	appos
9	to	to	PART	_	10 chop	mark
10	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 chunks	case
12	chunks	chunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chop	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 cook	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cook	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cook	compound
16	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chunks	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the Princess order					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality
2	chop	to-infinitive	which object not said here					into chunks for the palace cook	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into chunk=Patient

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

Iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A wooden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gate	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gate	amod
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An iron pillar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pillar	det
2	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pillar	amod
3	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 post	det
2	post	post	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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