Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

what's a steppe anyway, is it like a playground?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: steppe · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1117 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 steppe	det
4	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 what	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 what	nsubj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 playground	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 playground	det
11	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a steppe					like a playground; anyway property	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 · ✓ the right answer

a huge flat grassland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grassland	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grassland	amod
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grassland	amod
4	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a wide open meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meadow	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meadow	amod
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meadow	amod
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a huge flat grassland where horses run wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grassland	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grassland	amod
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grassland	amod
4	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 run	advmod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 run	nsubj
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grassland	acl:relcl
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 run	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	horses					wild property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a huge flat grassland covered in wild grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grassland	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grassland	amod
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grassland	amod
4	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grassland	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grass	amod
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a huge flat grassland not said here				in wild grass	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in grass=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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