Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…
Was the coachman really a hero or a liar, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coachman · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: hero
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hero | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coachman | det |
| 3 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hero | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 hero | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 liar | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 liar | det |
| 9 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hero | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hero | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hero | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the coachman | a hero or a liar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | the coachman not said here | 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
a knight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a thief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thief | det |
| 2 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a brave and honest hero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hero | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hero | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 honest | cc |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brave | conj |
| 5 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a liar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 liar | det |
| 2 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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