Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…

what did the heifer say to do with the entrails?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heifer · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heifer	det
4	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 entrails	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 entrails	det
10	entrails	entrail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the heifer						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive						with the entrails	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Bury them under the old barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bury	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	6 barn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barn	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 barn	amod
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the old barn			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme under barn=Destination

Option 2

Bury them in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bury	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 field	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 field	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the field			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in field=Destination

Option 3

Eat them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Plant the grain by the porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grain	det
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plant	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 porch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porch	det
6	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	imperative	you not said here	the grain				by the porch	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grain=Theme by porch=Destination

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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