Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

Of what profession was the traveller who fled from the corpses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: traveller · What happens: be, flee · To what, where: traveller, corpses

This is exam question 4 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 profession	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 profession	nsubj
3	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 traveller	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 traveller	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 traveller	det
6	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fled	nsubj
8	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 traveller	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 corpses	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corpses	det
11	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fled	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 traveller	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the traveller				of profession	tree rules
2	flee	past	the traveller			the corpses			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from corpse=Initial_Location

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

A peasant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	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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