Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Identify the sum of money first paid to the Soldier by the merchant.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sum · What happens: identify, pay, sum · To what, where: money

This is exam question 1 of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» 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 sum	det
3	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sum	nmod
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 paid	advmod
7	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Soldier	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Soldier	det
10	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 merchant	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 merchant	det
13	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	pay	past	the sum of money		to the Soldier; by the merchant; first property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sum			money		nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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 hundred and seventy roubles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 roubles	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seventy	cc
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

a small sum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

fifty roubles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 roubles	nummod
2	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a hundred and fifty roubles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 roubles	nummod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fifty	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj
5	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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