Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

For what period was the little demon required to serve the moujik, according to the devil's instruction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: devil · What happens: be, require, serve, accord, instruct · To what, where: little demon, moujik

This is exam question 3 of lesson 491 «Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasant saves his crust, a little demon steals it and then serves him» 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 period	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 period	nsubj
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demon	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 demon	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 demon	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 demon	amod
7	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 demon	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 serve	mark
10	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 required	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moujik	det
12	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 serve	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 instruction	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 instruction	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 devil	det
17	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 instruction	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 devil	case
19	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demon	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 demon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the little demon and the devil's instruction	for period	tree rules
2	require	participle		the little demon and the devil's instruction not said here		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	serve	to-infinitive		the moujik		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Attribute
4	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	instruct		the devil			nom instruction «communication 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

One year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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