Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tsar Novishny, part 9: the children ri…
so the sword just cuts itself?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sword · What happens: cut · To what, where: sword
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1103 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tsar Novishny, part 9: the children ride a horse, a humble-bee and a bullock away from the serpent, and the bullock gives his life to save them» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 cuts | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cuts | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 cuts | advmod |
| 5 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 cuts | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cuts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | the sword | sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset itself=Product |
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
Yep, it's a gimlet drill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 7 drill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drill | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drill | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drill | det |
| 6 | gimlet | gimlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drill | compound |
| 7 | drill | drill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a gimlet drill | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yep, it's a self-slicing sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 9 sword | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sword | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sword | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 6 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slicing | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 8 | slicing | slice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sword | amod |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slice | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a slicing sword | tree rules |
Option 3
Nope, it's a silver needle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 7 needle | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 needle | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 needle | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 needle | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 needle | compound |
| 7 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a silver needle | tree rules |
Option 4
Nope, it's just a normal sword that someone has to swing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 8 sword | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sword | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sword | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 sword | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 7 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 has | nsubj |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sword | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 swing | mark |
| 13 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 has | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a normal sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a normal sword | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swing | to-infinitive | a normal sword not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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