Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Specify the location in which the Soldier interrs the witch's coffin.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Soldier · What happens: specify, interr · To what, where: location, coffin

This is exam question 3 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 interrs	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Soldier	det
7	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 interrs	nsubj
8	interrs	interr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Specify	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coffin	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 witch	case
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 interrs	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the location					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	interr	present	the Soldier	the witch's coffin					tree rules

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

the graveyard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the riverbank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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