Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:…
Is it sus that the hay-cock bursts into flames?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, hay cock · What happens: be, burst · To what, where: flames
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1111 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17: the Serpent's three kisses, and Daniel's lucky gifts from a serpent-lady» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sus | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sus | nsubj |
| 3 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 bursts | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 6 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cock | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hay | punct |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bursts | nsubj |
| 9 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sus | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 flames | case |
| 11 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bursts | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | suspect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burst | present | the hay cock | flames | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Nah, a fox was hiding in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 hiding | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hiding | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hiding | aux |
| 6 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hiding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · progressive | a fox | it | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
Option 2
Nah, just smoke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 smoke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 smoke | advmod |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No, just hay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 hay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hay | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 hay | advmod |
| 4 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a serpent was inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 inside | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 serpent | det |
| 4 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inside | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inside | cop |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a serpent | inside property | tree rules |
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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