Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

bro, what's the shiny thing Tremsin grabs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be, grab · To what, where: shiny thing

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1109 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: the impossible sea task» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grabs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	conj
8	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	appos
9	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 grabs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro and the shiny thing	the shiny thing					tree rules
2	grab	present	bro and the shiny thing						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

a long silver spear that was lying near the Bird Zhar's cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spear	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spear	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spear	compound
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lying	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lying	aux
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spear	acl:relcl
8	near	near	ADP	_	13 cage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Zhar	det
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Zhar	compound
11	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cage	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Zhar	case
13	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	a long silver spear			the Bird Zhar's cage			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near cage=Location

Option 2

a shiny golden feather from the Bird Zhar's nest on the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 feather	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feather	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feather	amod
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 nest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Zhar	det
7	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Zhar	compound
8	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 nest	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Zhar	case
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feather	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feather	nmod

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

Option 3

a feather from the old horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feather	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a feather from the Bird Zhar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 Zhar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Zhar	det
5	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zhar	compound
6	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 feather	nmod

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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