Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…
so he totally ditches his sister, fr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: ditch · To what, where: sister
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1105 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling's warnings and the boiling water» 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 | _ | 4 ditches | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ditches | nsubj |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 ditches | advmod |
| 4 | ditches | ditch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ditches | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fr | punct |
| 8 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ditches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ditch | present | he | his sister and fr | totally property | tree rules |
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
yeah, cuz she was a fake friend who cried over the serpent and not over him
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 friend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 3 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 friend | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 7 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friend | amod |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 friend | acl:relcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 serpent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 serpent | det |
| 13 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 him | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 him | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cuz | a fake friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a fake friend | the serpent | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over serpent=Location |
Option 2
nah, cuz he's a jerk to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 jerk | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jerk | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 jerk | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 jerk | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jerk | det |
| 7 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 jerk | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cuz | a jerk | her = she | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, cuz she was a fake friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 friend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 3 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 friend | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 7 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friend | amod |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cuz | a fake friend | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, he ditches her, cuz she was a fake friend and he's just done with the whole family
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ditches | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ditches | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ditches | nsubj |
| 4 | ditches | ditch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ditches | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 7 | cuz | cuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friend | nsubj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 friend | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 11 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ditches | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 done | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 done | advmod |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ditches | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 family | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 family | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 family | amod |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ditch | present | he | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | cuz | a fake friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present · passive | friend | with the whole family | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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