Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…
did the oxen make any noise when he whacked 'em?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oxen, he · What happens: make, whack · To what, where: noise, 'em
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1101 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother: the henchmen in the drum settle the quarrel» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 oxen | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oxen | det |
| 3 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 whacked | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whacked | nsubj |
| 9 | whacked | whack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | advcl |
| 10 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whacked | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the oxen | any noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 2 | whack | past | he | 'em = they | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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
yep, a few moos, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 moos | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moos | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moos | amod |
| 5 | moos | moo | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bro | punct |
| 7 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moos | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, loads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 loads | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, one loud moo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 moo | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 moo | nummod |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moo | amod |
| 5 | moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nope, not one grunt, zero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 grunt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grunt | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grunt | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 grunt | nummod |
| 5 | grunt | grunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 zero | punct |
| 7 | zero | zero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grunt | 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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