Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Describe the means by which the witch is finally rendered powerless.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the · What happens: describe, mean, render · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Describe	ccomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 rendered	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rendered	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rendered	aux:pass
9	finally	finally	ADV	_	10 rendered	advmod
10	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 means	ccomp
11	powerless	powerless	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rendered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	render	present · passive		the witch	finally property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient powerless=Theme

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 sound of a bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sound	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the crowing of the cocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crowing	det
2	crowing	crowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cocks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cocks	det
5	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crowing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow		the cocks						nom crowing «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

the rising sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a holy prayer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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