Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…
What evidence causes the pursuing devils to abandon their search for the maiden?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pursuing, their · What happens: cause, devil, abandon, search · To what, where: search
This is exam question 4 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 | 3 causes | nsubj |
| 2 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 causes | nsubj |
| 3 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pursuing | det |
| 5 | pursuing | pursuing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 devils | nsubj |
| 6 | devils | devil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 causes | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 abandon | mark |
| 8 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 devils | xcomp |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 search | nmod:poss |
| 10 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abandon | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abandon | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 causes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | devil | present | the pursuing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | abandon | to-infinitive | the pursuing not said here | their search | for the maiden | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme search=Source | |||
| 4 | search | their = they | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
They find footprints leading only into the water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 footprints | acl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 water | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leading | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | They | footprints | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footprint=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | footprints not said here | the water | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into water=Destination |
Option 2
They discover footprints going into the lake.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 discover | nsubj |
| 2 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 discover | obj |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 footprints | acl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 discover | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | present | They | footprints | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footprint=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | footprints not said here | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lake=Initial_Location |
Option 3
They find footprints leading only into the water and none coming back out.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 footprints | acl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 water | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leading | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 none | cc |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 water | conj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 none | acl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 coming | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 coming | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | They | footprints | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footprint=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | footprints not said here | the water | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | gerund | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
They see tracks leading into the lake.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | obj |
| 4 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tracks | acl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leading | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | They | tracks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | tracks not said here | the lake | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into lake=Destination |
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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