Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

Mate, what did Tremsin's horse do to those hides, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do · To what, where: horse

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1110 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin wins the herd and the Nastasia's riddle, then a labourer's wife turns out to be a serpent» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Tremsin	case
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hides	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 hides	det
11	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hides	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	Tremsin's horse					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	do	present	Mate					to that hides	vn act-114-1 «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

Ate them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ate	obj

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

Option 2

Tore them apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tore	Tore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tore	nmod
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	1 Tore	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Shredded them to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shredded	shred	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shredded	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bits	case
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shredded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shred	past		them = they				to bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to bit=Result

Option 4

Kicked them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kicked	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Kicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick away	past		them = they				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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