Test 3 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

Which dog was the real hero who ran the wolf down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, real hero · What happens: be, run down · To what, where: real hero, wolf

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hero	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hero	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hero	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hero	amod
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hero	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which dog	the real hero					tree rules
2	run down	past	the real hero	the wolf					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wolf=Trajectory

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

Protius, the fastest of the three dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Protius	Protius	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fastest	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fastest	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fastest	det
4	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dogs	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 dogs	nummod
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fastest	obl

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

Option 2

The grey hound Protius, who ran her down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hound	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hound	amod
3	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	nsubj
4	Protius	Protius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hound	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ran	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run down	past	the grey hound	Protius					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent

Option 3

Bogdan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bogdan	Bogdan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Protius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Protius	Protius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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