Test 7 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

Okay real talk, what's the sis's excuse for wanting bear's milk?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Okay real talk, excuse · What happens: be, want · To what, where: excuse, milk

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 excuse	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 excuse	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 excuse	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sis	det
8	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 excuse	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 sis	case
10	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	appos
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 wanting	mark
12	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 excuse	acl
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 milk	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 bear	case
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanting	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Okay real talk	the sis's excuse					tree rules
2	want	gerund	the sis's excuse not said here	bear's milk					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot milk=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

She dreamed it would heal her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dreamed	nsubj
2	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heal	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heal	aux
5	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dreamed	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	She						vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	heal	would	it	her = she					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

To heal her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 heal	mark
2	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heal	obj

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

Option 3

A dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She thought it would make her well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	would	it	her = she				well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product

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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