Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…

Which party does the King initially resolve to execute?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: party · What happens: resolve, execute

This is exam question 2 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 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 resolve	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 resolve	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 resolve	nsubj
6	initially	initially	ADV	_	7 resolve	advmod
7	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 execute	mark
9	execute	execute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 resolve	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present · do-support	which party					initially property	tree rules
2	execute	to-infinitive	which party not said here						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

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

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	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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