Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…
Identify the creature which spoke with a human voice and conferred good fortune upon the fool.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, creature · What happens: identify, speak, confer · To what, where: creature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 creature | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voice | amod |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fortune | cc |
| 11 | conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fortune | amod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fortune | amod |
| 13 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 fool | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fool | det |
| 16 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fortune | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the creature | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the creature | with a human voice and conferred good fortune upon the fool | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with voice=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | confer | participle | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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
The fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The large talking pike that lived in the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pike | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pike | amod |
| 3 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pike | compound |
| 4 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pike | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the large talking pike | the river | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The pike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pike | det |
| 2 | pike | pike | 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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