Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

Bro, what's the wife's big no-no?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 big	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 big	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 big	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bro	amod
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 no	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 no	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 big	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bro					big 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

Looking at the sheaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 sheaf	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheaf	det
4	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						at the sheaf	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sheaf=Theme

Option 2

Ever mentioning her old family back in the village at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 mentioning	advmod
2	mentioning	mention	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 family	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 family	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mentioning	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	2 mentioning	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mentioning	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 village	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	gerund		her old family		the village at all	ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent family=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Calling her a serpent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Calling	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 serpent	det
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund		her = she					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme serpent=Result

Option 4

Going into the field without telling her where he had gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 field	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 telling	mark
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Going	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 telling	iobj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 gone	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 telling	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	gerund			the field	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	go	past · perfect	he			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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