Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

what sea sign does the horse talk about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: talk about

This is test 12 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 talk	obl
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	compound
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	7 talk	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk about	present · do-support	the horse						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 big red wave rolling toward the shore with a roar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 wave	acl
6	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 shore	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolling	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 roar	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 roar	det
11	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund	a big red wave not said here			the shore		with a roar	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward shore=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a big red wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a small red wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a big white wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wave	amod
4	wave	wave	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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