Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Specify the penalty which the King prescribed for any physician who failed to restore his daughter.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, King, physician · What happens: specify, prescribe, fail, not restore · To what, where: penalty, daughter

This is exam question 3 of lesson 486 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part 78: a greedy Pope steals loaves and tries to cure a princess by chopping her up» 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 penalty	det
3	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 prescribed	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 prescribed	nsubj
7	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 penalty	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 physician	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 physician	det
10	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prescribed	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 failed	nsubj
12	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 physician	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 restore	mark
14	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 failed	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 restore	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the penalty		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent penalty=Theme
2	prescribe	past	the King	the penalty	for any physician	tree rules
3	fail	past	any physician			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not restore	to-infinitive	any physician not said here	King's daughter		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=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

Burning alive in the public square at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 square	csubj
2	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Burning	xcomp
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 square	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 square	det
5	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 square	amod
6	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 noon	case
8	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 square	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund						alive property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Beheading, nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beheading	beheading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Beheading	appos
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 nothing	advmod

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

Option 3

Hanging, the body to be burned at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 burned	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hanging	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burned	nsubj:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	7 burned	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 burned	aux:pass
7	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burn	to-infinitive · passive		the body			dawn		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Beheading, the head to be displayed upon a stake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beheading	beheading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 head	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beheading	appos
5	to	to	PART	_	7 displayed	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 displayed	aux:pass
7	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Beheading	acl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 stake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stake	det
10	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 displayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	display	to-infinitive · passive						upon a stake	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»

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