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title: What quality was attributed to the glance of the Servian Vy? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What quality was attributed to the glance of the Servian Vy? Exam question 2 of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays th…

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What quality was attributed to the glance of the Servian Vy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Servian Vy · **What happens:** attribute, glance

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/425-pg22373-part17/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e2:1
# text = What quality was attributed to the glance of the Servian Vy?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Servian	Servian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Vy	Vy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attribute** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to the glance of the Servian Vy | tree rules |
| 2 | **glance** |  | the Servian Vy |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Such lethality that anyone who met it died instantly, as of a basilisk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e2:o1:1
# text = Such lethality that anyone who met it died instantly, as of a basilisk
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lethality	lethality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	basilisk	basilisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past |  | lethality |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **die** | past | Such lethality |  |  |  |  | as a basilisk; instantly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brightness, like a candle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e2:o2:1
# text = Brightness, like a candle
1	Brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Lethality, as of a basilisk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e2:o3:1
# text = Lethality, as of a basilisk
1	Lethality	lethality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	basilisk	basilisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lethality, as of a basilisk, shared with all of its kin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:e2:o4:1
# text = Lethality, as of a basilisk, shared with all of its kin
1	Lethality	lethality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	basilisk	basilisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | participle |  | Lethality and a basilisk *not said here* |  |  |  | with all | tree rules |

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**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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