Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

State the number of iron hoops that snap before the Soldier leaps onto the horse.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, iron hoops, Soldier · What happens: state, snap, leap · To what, where: number

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hoops	case
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hoops	compound
6	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 snap	nsubj
8	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hoops	acl:relcl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 leaps	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Soldier	det
11	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 leaps	nsubj
12	leaps	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snap	ccomp
13	onto	onto	ADP	_	15 horse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaps	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the number of iron hoops		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	snap	present	iron hoops			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leap	present	the Soldier		onto the horse	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto horse=Trajectory

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

three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

three, but only after the horse slowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 horse	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 horse	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 three	appos
8	slowed	slow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 horse	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	participle		the horse not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

all three of the iron hoops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 hoops	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hoops	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hoops	compound
6	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 three	nmod

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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