Exam question 4 · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

How did the shepherd conduct himself at the wedding feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: shepherd conduct, wedding feast

This is exam question 4 of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 conduct	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conduct	compound
5	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 conduct	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feast	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feast	compound
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the shepherd conduct himself		the wedding feast			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=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

he gave the first toast to the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toast	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 toast	amod
5	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the first toast	the king				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent toast=Theme to king=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he proposed the first toast to the king's health

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toast	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 toast	amod
5	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 health	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 health	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	he	the first toast	the king's health				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent toast=Theme to health=Recipient

Option 3

he proposed the first toast to the king's health, loudly and proudly before everyone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toast	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 toast	amod
5	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 health	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 health	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loudly	punct
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 proposed	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 proudly	cc
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	12 loudly	conj
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 everyone	case
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 proposed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	he	the first toast	the king's health		before everyone	loudly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent toast=Theme to health=Recipient

Option 4

he proposed the first toast to the king's health and danced all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toast	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 toast	amod
5	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 health	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 health	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 danced	cc
12	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proposed	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 danced	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	he	the first toast	the king's health				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent toast=Theme to health=Recipient
2	dance	past	he not said here				night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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