Test 13 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…
so who wins this one, the old folks or the bear
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: win · To what, where: one
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1113 «Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a hungry bear with a tar-smeared straw ox» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 wins | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 wins | nsubj |
| 3 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wins | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 folks | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 folks | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 folks | amod |
| 9 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 bear | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | this one and the old folks or the bear | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
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
the old folks win, the bear gets stuck and dragged away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 folks | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 folks | amod |
| 3 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 win | nsubj |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stuck | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stuck | aux:pass |
| 9 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 win | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dragged | cc |
| 11 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stuck | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 dragged | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | the old folks | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stick | present · passive | the bear | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drag away | participle | away property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
the bear wins, the ox is dragged home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wins | nsubj |
| 3 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragged | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ox | det |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dragged | aux:pass |
| 8 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wins | conj |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragged | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | the bear | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drag | present · passive | the ox | tree rules |
Option 3
the old folks win, the bear runs off free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 folks | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 folks | amod |
| 3 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 win | nsubj |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 runs | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 runs | nsubj |
| 8 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 runs | compound:prt |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 runs | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | the old folks | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run off | present | the bear | free property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
the old folks win, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 folks | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 folks | amod |
| 3 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 win | nsubj |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 6 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 win | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | the old folks | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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