Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the…

What was the final occupation assigned to Prince Ivan at the conclusion of this passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, assign, conclude · To what, where: final occupation, Prince Ivan, conclusion, passage

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 occupation	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 occupation	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 occupation	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 occupation	amod
5	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 occupation	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Ivan	case
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ivan	compound
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 assigned	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 conclusion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 conclusion	det
12	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assigned	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 passage	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conclusion	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 occupation	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the final occupation			tree rules
2	assign	participle	the final occupation not said here	Prince Ivan	the conclusion of this passage	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to ivan=Goal
3	conclude		this passage			nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=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

Cooking meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meals	compound
2	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Tending the herd of cows out in the distant fields every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herd	det
3	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tending	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cows	case
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 herd	nmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	1 Tending	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fields	det
9	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fields	amod
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tending	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tending	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	gerund		the herd of cows		the distant fields	day	out property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme

Option 3

Chopping firewood at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chopping	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	gerund		firewood			dawn		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tending the herd of cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herd	det
3	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tending	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cows	case
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 herd	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	gerund		the herd of cows					vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme

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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