Exam question 1 · Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part…

Which saint is described as transfixing monsters with his lance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, transfix · To what, where: saint, monsters

This is exam question 1 of lesson 485 «Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part 77: St. Andrew, St. George and St. Nicholas each help or punish people in their own way» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 saint	det
2	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 transfixing	mark
6	transfixing	transfix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
7	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 transfixing	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 lance	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lance	nmod:poss
10	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 transfixing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which saint					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	transfix	gerund		monsters				with his lance	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monster=Experiencer

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

Saint Demetrius of the Thessalonian host and army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Demetrius	compound
2	Demetrius	Demetrius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 host	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 host	det
5	Thessalonian	Thessalonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 host	compound
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Demetrius	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 army	cc
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 host	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

St. George

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 George	nmod:desc
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

St. Michael

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Michael	nmod:desc
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the wandering monk Saint Sergius of the northern lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monk	det
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 monk	amod
3	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sergius	compound
5	Sergius	Sergius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 monk	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 lands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lands	det
8	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lands	amod
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 monk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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