Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…

Which object does the fool instruct to convey him to the royal residence?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, fool · What happens: do, instruct, convey · To what, where: fool, royal residence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 468 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magic orders win a palace and the King's pardon» 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 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fool	det
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instruct	nsubj
6	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 convey	mark
8	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 instruct	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 convey	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 residence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 residence	det
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 residence	amod
13	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 convey	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	present	which object			tree rules
2	instruct speech: other	present	the fool			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	convey	to-infinitive	the fool not said here	fool	the royal residence	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to residence=Recipient

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 horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stove	det
2	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The tub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tub	det
2	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	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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