Test 14 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tsar Novishny, part 9: the children ri…
yo, what tool did the Devil use to dig?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tool, Devil · What happens: do, use, dig
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | obj |
| 4 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Devil | det |
| 7 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 use | nsubj |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dig | mark |
| 10 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 use | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tool | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | use | present | the Devil | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dig | to-infinitive | the Devil not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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
A shovel, like a big spade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shovel | det |
| 2 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spade | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 spade | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spade | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spade | amod |
| 7 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shovel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A gimlet, like a little drill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gimlet | det |
| 2 | gimlet | gimlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drill | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 drill | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drill | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 drill | amod |
| 7 | drill | drill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gimlet | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A huge iron shovel he carried on his back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shovel | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shovel | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shovel | compound |
| 4 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | a huge iron shovel | his back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A knife, like a sharp blade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knife | det |
| 2 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knife | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 blade | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blade | det |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blade | amod |
| 7 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knife | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1103-pg29672-part9/t14/