Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the b…

dude, what did the Moon's mom say was in the air?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: mom, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1121 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the bride trades apples for nights with her husband» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mom	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Moon	case
8	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	dude	the Moon's mom		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mom=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	dude			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past			the air	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location

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

a strong smell of Cossack bones and blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 smell	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	amod
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bones	case
5	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	compound
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blood	cc
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		Cossack bones						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

the stench of roasting meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stench	det
2	stench	stench	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meat	nmod:poss
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 roasting	mark
4	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stench	acl
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	gerund	the stench not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

a sharp smell of Cossack bones lying in the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 smell	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	amod
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bones	case
5	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	compound
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nmod
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 smell	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 yard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yard	det
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	a sharp smell of Cossack bones not said here					in the yard	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in yard=Location
2	smell		Cossack bones						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a smell of Cossack bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bones	case
4	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bones	compound
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		Cossack bones						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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