Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…
What is the principal feature of the palace the youth encounters beneath the water?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: principal feature, youth · What happens: be, encounter, feature · To what, where: palace
This is exam question 2 of lesson 489 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for any bride goes under the lake» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feature | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feature | amod |
| 5 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feature | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 encounters | nsubj |
| 11 | encounters | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 palace | acl:relcl |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 encounters | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the principal feature of the palace | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | encounter | present | the youth | the palace not said here | beneath the water | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | feature | the palace | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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
It is built of white stone and richly furnished with many glowing lamps and silk hangings.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stone | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 furnished | cc |
| 8 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 9 furnished | advmod |
| 9 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 built | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lamps | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lamps | amod |
| 12 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lamps | amod |
| 13 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 furnished | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hangings | cc |
| 15 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hangings | compound |
| 16 | hangings | hanging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lamps | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | It | of white stone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | furnish | participle | with many glowing lamps and silk hangings; richly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lamp=Theme | |||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
It is carved from wood and quite plain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carved | aux:pass |
| 3 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carved | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plain | cc |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 plain | advmod |
| 8 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carved | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | present · passive | It | wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from wood=Material |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is built of white stone and richly furnished.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stone | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 furnished | cc |
| 8 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 9 furnished | advmod |
| 9 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 built | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | It | of white stone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | furnish | participle | richly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It is built of gold and filled with guards.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 filled | cc |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 built | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 guards | case |
| 9 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | It | of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | with guards | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with guard=Instrument |
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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