Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

lol so what did the dude actually buy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do, buy · To what, where: dude

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1102 «Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar promises Satan what awaits him at home, and the children are hidden in a ditch» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 buy	advmod
8	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dude	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dude					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Eventuality
2	buy	infinitive	the dude not said here					actually property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Some sour cabbage and a salty fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 cabbage	det
2	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cabbage	amod
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fish	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cabbage	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Salty fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Dried fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A little salted herring from the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 herring	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 herring	amod
3	salted	salt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 herring	amod
4	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 market	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 market	det
7	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 herring	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	salt	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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