Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

Which action did the bride take after the groom had vanished?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, bride, groom · What happens: do, take, vanish

This is exam question 4 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 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	parataxis
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 vanished	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 groom	det
9	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vanished	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vanished	aux
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 take	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	which action	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	infinitive	the bride	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	vanish	past · perfect	the groom	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

She wed a different suitor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wed	nsubj
2	wed	w	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 suitor	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suitor	amod
5	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	w	past	She	a different suitor					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She waited in vain for many years before finally marrying another man in the village

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waited	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waited	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 marrying	mark
9	finally	finally	ADV	_	10 marrying	advmod
10	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 waited	advcl
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marrying	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 village	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	She			vain	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location
2	marry	gerund	She not said here	another man		the village		finally property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 3

She remarried a local farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remarried	nsubj
2	remarried	remarry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
4	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 farmer	amod
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remarried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remarry	past	She	a local farmer					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She married another man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	She	another man					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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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