Test 10 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

what was the wind's big rule, fam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big rule, wind · What happens: be, rule

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rule	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wind	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rule	amod
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rule	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wind's big rule and fam						tree rules
2	rule		the wind						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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

never visit inns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 visit	advmod
2	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inns	inn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not visit	imperative	you not said here	inns					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inn=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no tavern stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 tavern	det
2	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	no tavern						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

never sleep near any tavern at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 sleep	advmod
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 tavern	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 tavern	det
5	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	imperative	you not said here			any tavern		at all	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

do not speak to the tavern-keepers ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 speak	advmod
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 keepers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keepers	det
6	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keepers	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tavern	punct
8	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 speak	obl
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	imperative · do-support	you not said here				ever	to the tavern keepers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to keeper=Co-Agent

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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