Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…

Which structure does the fool command to be erected opposite the royal palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: structure · What happens: do, fool, erect · To what, where: fool command

This is exam question 3 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 structure	det
2	structure	structure	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	6 command	det
5	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 command	compound
6	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 erected	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 erected	aux:pass
9	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 command	acl
10	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	13 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palace	amod
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 erected	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	which structure	the fool command		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality
2	fool	infinitive				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	erect	to-infinitive · passive	which structure not said here	the fool command not said here	opposite the royal palace	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»

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 right answer

A marble palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 palace	det
2	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 palace	amod
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tent	det
2	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A stone tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tower	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tower	compound
3	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A wooden hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hut	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hut	amod
3	hut	hut	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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