Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…
State the object which the townspeople proposed to present to the fool in order to deceive him.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State object · What happens: townspeople, propose, present, deceive · To what, where: townspeople, fool, him
This is exam question 2 of lesson 467 «Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's pike-magic pails, sledge and cudgel make the town angry, so they plan a trick» 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 object | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 townspeople | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 townspeople | det |
| 6 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 object | appos |
| 7 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 townspeople | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 present | mark |
| 9 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 proposed | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fool | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fool | det |
| 12 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | obl |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 deceive | mark |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 in | fixed |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 deceive | mark |
| 16 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 present | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deceive | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 object | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | townspeople | the State object | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | propose | participle | the townspeople not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | present | to-infinitive | the fool | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fool=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | deceive | to-infinitive | him = he | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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
A golden crown and a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 horse | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A red hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hat | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hat | amod |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Red boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boots | amod |
| 2 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Red shirt, red caftan and red boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shirt | amod |
| 2 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caftan | punct |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 caftan | amod |
| 5 | caftan | caftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shirt | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 boots | cc |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boots | amod |
| 8 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shirt | conj |
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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