Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40:…
Which two companions accompany the fox at the beginning of the passage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two companions · What happens: accompany, begin · To what, where: fox, beginning, passage
This is exam question 1 of lesson 700 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40: the fox tricks the magpie and the crow, then meets a bear who needs a mourner» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 accompany | obj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 companions | nummod |
| 3 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 accompany | nsubj |
| 4 | accompany | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accompany | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 beginning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beginning | det |
| 9 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accompany | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 passage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 passage | det |
| 12 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beginning | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 accompany | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | present | two companions | the fox | at the beginning of the passage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | the passage | nom beginning «event 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 · ← Mova's choice
The wolf, the bear, and the old crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crow | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crow | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crow | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crow | amod |
| 10 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The magpie and the crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magpie | det |
| 2 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crow | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crow | det |
| 5 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 magpie | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The wolf and the bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bear | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The wolf and the bear and the magpie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bear | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 magpie | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magpie | det |
| 8 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
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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