Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

Which statement correctly gives the period the bridegroom spent beneath the grave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: statement, bridegroom · What happens: give, spend · To what, where: period

This is exam question 1 of lesson 477 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a dead man and wakes three hundred years late» 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 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 gives	advmod
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 period	det
6	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bridegroom	det
8	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spent	nsubj
9	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 period	acl:relcl
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 grave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grave	det
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spent	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	which statement	the period				correctly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Theme
2	spend	past	the bridegroom	the period not said here				beneath the grave	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Asset

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

He remained three hundred years, the sum of three cups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remained	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sum	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sum	det
8	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cups	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cups	nummod
11	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sum	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	He	the sum of three cups			year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sum			three cups					nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Three cups only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cups	nummod
2	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 cups	advmod

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

Option 3

He stayed under for a century and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	6 century	case
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 century	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 century	det
6	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 more	cc
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 stayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	He				century		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Three hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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