Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

when he's up in the tree, what's he doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, do · To what, where: tree

This is test 7 · ★ 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 up	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 up	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 up	cop
4	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 up	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doing	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 doing	obj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 doing	nsubj
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tree	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			the tree		up property	tree rules
2	do	present · progressive	he	the tree					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

playing his flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 flute	nmod:poss
3	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		his flute					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme

Option 2

eating his bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bread	nmod:poss
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		his bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 3

playing his flute while the dogs chew through the doors and the serpent sleeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sleeps	csubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 flute	nmod:poss
3	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 playing	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 chew	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chew	nsubj
7	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 playing	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 doors	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doors	det
10	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 serpent	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 serpent	det
13	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doors	conj
14	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	play	gerund		his flute		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
2	chew	present	the dogs		the doors and the serpent	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	present	playing			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	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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