Test 10 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…

how did the councillors check the feet, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: councillors · What happens: check · To what, where: feet

This is test 10 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 check	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 check	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 councillors	det
4	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 check	nsubj
5	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feet	det
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 check	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feet	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past · do-support	the councillors	the feet					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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

They checked each maiden's hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 checked	nsubj
2	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 maiden	case
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 checked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past	They	each maiden's hair					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They measured each maiden's foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 measured	nsubj
2	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 maiden	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	They	each maiden's foot					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme foot=Value

Option 3

They looked closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	closely	closely	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	They					closely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

They asked her name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	They	her name					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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