Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…
Wicked coachman, dude, what did he make her do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, Wicked coachman · What happens: make, do · To what, where: Wicked coachman
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 coachman | amod |
| 2 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dude | punct |
| 4 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coachman | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 make | obj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 coachman | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 coachman | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | he | Wicked coachman and dude | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Wicked coachman and dude not said here | 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
swear a lie to the Tsar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lie | det |
| 3 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 swear | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Tsar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 swear | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | imperative | you not said here | a lie | to the Tsar | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality |
Option 2
lie to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 lie | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
swear a lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lie | det |
| 3 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 swear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | imperative | you not said here | a lie | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent lie=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
swear that the coachman slew the Dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 slew | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coachman | det |
| 4 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slew | nsubj |
| 5 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 swear | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dragon | det |
| 7 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slew | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | slay | past | the coachman | the Dragon | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
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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