Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

lol why were the servants so salty at Tremsin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Tremsin

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 salty	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 salty	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 salty	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servants	det
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 salty	advmod
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Tremsin	case
9	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 salty	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				Tremsin		salty 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

he was taller than them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taller	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taller	cop
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					than them = they; tall property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his horse was shinier than theirs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shinier	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shinier	cop
4	shinier	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 theirs	case
6	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shinier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his horse					than theirs = they; shiny property	tree rules

Option 3

he was too lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

he won the horse race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 race	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 race	compound
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	he	the horse race					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

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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