Exam question 4 · Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part…
Which object did the Gypsy request from St. George as surety?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: Gypsy request, George
This is exam question 4 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 request | det |
| 5 | Gypsy | gypsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 request | amod |
| 6 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 George | case |
| 8 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 George | nmod:desc |
| 9 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 request | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 surety | case |
| 11 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the Gypsy request | George St. | as surety | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
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
an iron bridle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridle | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bridle | amod |
| 3 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the sacred silver cross from his neck and chain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cross | det |
| 2 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cross | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cross | compound |
| 4 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 neck | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cross | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chain | cc |
| 9 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 neck | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the golden saddle from his noble white war horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 saddle | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saddle | amod |
| 3 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horse | compound |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saddle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a golden stirrup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stirrup | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stirrup | amod |
| 3 | stirrup | stirrup | 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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