Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

bro the nobleman just found a flute in a ditch bush, how random is that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro nobleman · What happens: find, be · To what, where: flute, ditch bush, that

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nobleman	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nobleman	det
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flute	det
7	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 bush	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bush	det
10	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bush	compound
11	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 random	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 random	advmod
14	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bush	conj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 that	cop
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 found	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the bro nobleman	a flute		a ditch bush			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Topic
2	is a	present		that					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 · ✓ the right answer

super random but it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	super	super	ADV	_	2 random	advmod
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 works	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 random	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

very odd but it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 odd	advmod
2	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 true	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 odd	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules

Option 3

super weird but it works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	super	super	ADV	_	2 weird	advmod
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 works	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 weird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

kinda weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	2 weird	advmod
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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