Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

What was the precise quantity of malt the old man instructed the moujik to procure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: be, instruct, procure · To what, where: precise quantity, moujik

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 quantity	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quantity	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 quantity	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quantity	amod
5	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 malt	case
7	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quantity	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 instructed	nsubj
11	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quantity	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moujik	det
13	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 instructed	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 procure	mark
15	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 moujik	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 quantity	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the precise quantity	of malt	tree rules
2	instruct speech: other	past	the old man	the moujik		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moujik=Recipient
3	procure	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the moujik not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 third

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

two full quarters of barley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 quarters	nummod
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quarters	amod
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 barley	case
5	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quarters	nmod

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

Option 3

a bushel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a quarter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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