Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:…

Wait, what's the shift even for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: shift

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shift	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 shift	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shift	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shift	det
6	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 for	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	6 shift	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the shift					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 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody can grab you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 grab	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grab	aux
3	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	can	Nobody	you					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

Keeps you warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeps	keep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warm	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Keeps	obj
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

It makes you swift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	swift	swift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	you					tree rules
2	swift	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules

Option 4

It keeps you dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	you				dry property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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