Test 7 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…
was the heifer gonna get killed or not?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: heifer
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heifer | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heifer | det |
| 3 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 heifer | dep |
| 5 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 killed | aux:pass |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 not | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 killed | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the heifer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive · passive | the heifer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Yeah, the cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cook | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cook | det |
| 4 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, the butcher was called in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 called | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 butcher | det |
| 4 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in speech: assert | past · passive | the butcher | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the old man was gonna do it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | 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 | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | cop |
| 7 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 do | dep |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old man | do property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, it was saved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 saved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saved | aux:pass |
| 5 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · passive | it | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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