Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

By what means were the two youths restored to life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two youths · What happens: mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 restored	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youths	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 youths	nummod
7	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 restored	nsubj
8	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 restored	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	the two youths					to life; restore property	tree rules

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

By herbs boiled in fresh milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 herbs	case
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 milk	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 milk	amod
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	participle		herbs not said here				in fresh milk	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in milk=Instrument

Option 2

By the smoke of a shroud burnt in a pot over the hearth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 smoke	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smoke	det
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 shroud	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shroud	det
6	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smoke	nmod
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shroud	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pot	det
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burnt	obl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 hearth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hearth	det
13	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	participle		a shroud not said here		a pot		over the hearth	tree rules
2	smoke		a shroud						nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By smoke from a burnt shroud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 smoke	case
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 shroud	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shroud	det
5	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shroud	amod
6	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smoke	nmod

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

Option 4

By smoke from a burnt shroud carried by the soldier in his bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 smoke	case
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 shroud	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shroud	det
5	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shroud	amod
6	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smoke	nmod
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shroud	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 soldier	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl:agent
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bag	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bag	nmod:poss
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle		a burnt shroud not said here		his bag			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bag=Location

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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