Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

What was the final outcome of the rich neighbor's experiment with his malt?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rich neighbor · What happens: be, experiment · To what, where: final outcome

This is exam question 4 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 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outcome	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outcome	amod
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 experiment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neighbor	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 neighbor	amod
9	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 experiment	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 neighbor	case
11	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outcome	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 malt	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 malt	nmod:poss
14	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 experiment	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final outcome				of the rich neighbor's experiment with his malt	tree rules
2	experiment		the rich neighbor					with his malt	nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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

He found the malt had turned into something sweet, strong, and better than any beer he had ever tasted in his life

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 malt	det
4	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 found	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 something	case
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 turned	obl
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 strong	punct
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sweet	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 better	cc
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 found	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 beer	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 beer	det
17	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 better	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tasted	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tasted	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 tasted	advmod
21	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 beer	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 life	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	past	He				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	turn	past · perfect	the malt		something		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into something=Trajectory
3	taste	past · perfect	he	any beer not said here	his life	ever	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beer=Theme in life=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He found only malt and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 malt	advmod
4	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 malt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	malt and water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malt=Topic

Option 3

He found some old coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 coins	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coins	amod
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	some old coins					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic

Option 4

He found only beer and bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 beer	advmod
4	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bread	cc
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	beer and bread					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Topic

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