Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

Which record did the priest consult to establish the date of the groom's disappearance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: record, groom · What happens: consult, establish, disappear · To what, where: date

This is exam question 3 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 record	det
2	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consult	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consult	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consult	nsubj
6	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 establish	mark
8	establish	establish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 consult	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 date	det
10	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 establish	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 disappearance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 groom	det
13	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 disappearance	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 groom	case
15	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 date	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 consult	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	consult	past · do-support	which record		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	establish	to-infinitive	which record not said here	the date of the groom's disappearance	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient
3	disappear		the groom		nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 church-books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 books	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 books	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 church	punct
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Records

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The village diary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	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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