Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder br…
So blood on the knife means the elder brother's in trouble, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blood · What happens: mean · To what, where: elder brother
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1122 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder brother is turned to stone, and the younger brother wins him back from a witch» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 knife | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blood | nmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 8 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 trouble | case |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yeah | punct |
| 14 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 means | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | blood on the knife | the elder brother | in trouble | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme in trouble=Attribute |
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
Yeah, he's dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | dead property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he's perishing, so go find him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 perishing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perishing | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 perishing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 perishing | aux |
| 5 | perishing | perish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 perishing | parataxis |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | present · progressive | he | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | him = he | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
Option 3
Yeah, he's hurt, go and help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 go | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 help | cc |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · passive | he | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | you not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, he's fine, don't worry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 worry | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 worry | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 worry | advmod |
| 9 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not worry | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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