Test 1 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…
ngl the heifer did the flax, right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, heifer · What happens: ngl, do · To what, where: flax
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1115 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slippers are left behind and the search begins» 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 | ngl | ngl | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heifer | det |
| 3 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 ngl | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flax | det |
| 6 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| 8 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 ngl | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngl | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the heifer | the flax | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it spun and wove it while she slept
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 spun | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spun | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spun | nsubj |
| 4 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wove | cc |
| 6 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spun | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wove | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 slept | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slept | nsubj |
| 10 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wove | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past | it | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weave | past | it | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||||
| 3 | sleep | past | she | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, the old man spun it all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 spun | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spun | nsubj |
| 6 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spun | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spun | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past | the old man | it | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, it wove the cloth while she dozed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wove | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wove | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wove | nsubj |
| 4 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wove | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 dozed | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dozed | nsubj |
| 9 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wove | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | it | the cloth | vn build-26.1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cloth=Product | ||||
| 2 | doze | past | she | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nah, the stepmother secretly came out at night and spun and wove the entire flax herself
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stepmother | det |
| 4 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spun | cc |
| 11 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wove | cc |
| 13 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flax | det |
| 15 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flax | amod |
| 16 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wove | obj |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 wove | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the stepmother | night | out, secretly property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | spin | past | the stepmother not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | weave | past | the stepmother not said here | the entire flax | stepmother obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=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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