Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

Which object did the corpse carry out of the grave upon emerging?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: carry out, emerge · To what, where: grave

This is exam question 1 of lesson 478 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: the moujik wins back the coffin-lid and saves two dead lads» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corpse	det
5	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 grave	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 grave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grave	det
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	12 emerging	mark
12	emerging	emerge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 carry	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry out	past · do-support	which object	the grave					vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Eventuality
2	emerge	gerund	which object not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «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

The heavy lid of a sealed oak coffin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lid	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lid	amod
3	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 coffin	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coffin	det
6	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 coffin	amod
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coffin	compound
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lid	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A grave plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A stone slab pulled from the churchyard wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 slab	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slab	compound
3	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slab	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
7	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wall	compound
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle		a stone slab not said here				from the churchyard wall	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from wall=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A coffin lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lid	det
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lid	compound
3	lid	lid	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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