Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

Of what commodity did the destitute moujik declare himself unable to procure for the sacred lamp?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moujik · What happens: destitute, declare, procure · To what, where: moujik

This is exam question 1 of lesson 483 «Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews the feast's beer» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 destitute	obj
3	commodity	commodity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 destitute	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 destitute	det
6	destitute	destitute	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 declare	nsubj
8	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 destitute	xcomp
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 declare	obj
10	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 declare	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 procure	mark
12	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unable	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 lamp	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lamp	det
15	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lamp	amod
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 procure	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 destitute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	destitute	past · do-support				tree rules
2	declare speech: other	infinitive	moujik	moujik	unable property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute
3	procure	to-infinitive	moujik not said here		for the sacred lamp	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for lamp=Beneficiary

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

lamp oil for the church icon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oil	compound
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 icon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 icon	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 icon	compound
6	icon	icon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oil	nmod

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

Option 2

ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wax	wax	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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