Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…
Into what receptacle did the old man direct that the malt be deposited?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: receptacle · What happens: do, deposit · To what, where: old man, malt
This is exam question 3 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | receptacle | receptacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 deposited | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 malt | det |
| 11 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deposited | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 deposited | aux:pass |
| 13 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 did | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | receptacle | the old man | direct property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | deposit | infinitive · passive | the malt | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice
yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the barrel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
pit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 well | det |
| 2 | well | well | 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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