Test 4 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

what's a pitch-burner even, lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: pitch burner

This is test 4 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 burner	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burner	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 burner	det
4	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burner	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pitch	punct
6	burner	burner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	6 burner	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 even	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 burner	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a pitch burner					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

a dude who burns wood under dirt to make that black sticky tar for carts and boats

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dude	det
2	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dude	acl:relcl
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 dirt	case
7	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 burns	advcl
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 tar	nsubj
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tar	amod
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tar	amod
13	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 carts	case
15	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tar	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 boats	cc
17	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	present	a dude	wood	dirt		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	a dude not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	tar		that			for carts and boats	tree rules

Option 2

a guy who spins flax all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 spins	nsubj
4	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guy	acl:relcl
5	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	a guy	flax			day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a dude who burns wood to make that black sticky tar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dude	det
2	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dude	acl:relcl
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 burns	advcl
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 tar	nsubj
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tar	amod
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tar	amod
11	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	burn	present	a dude	wood	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	a dude not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	tar		that		tree rules

Option 4

a dude who burns straw to make ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dude	det
2	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dude	acl:relcl
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burns	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 burns	advcl
8	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	a dude	straw					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	a dude not said here	ash					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ash=Product

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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