Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tsar Novishny, part 9: the children ri…

yo, did the serpent cross the sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: serpent · What happens: cross · To what, where: sea

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	6 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 serpent	det
5	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	nsubj
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past · do-support	the serpent	the sea					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=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

Yeah, he swam right over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	he					over property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 easily	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	easily	easily	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he had nothing to run on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	run on	to-infinitive	he not said here	nothing not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nope, he was too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 heavy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heavy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					heavy property	tree rules

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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