Test 13 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…
wait, what did the cat do when the party got wild?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cat, party · What happens: wait, do, get
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1126 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wait | conj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 party | det |
| 10 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | the cat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get | past | the party | wild property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
danced
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
whirled and spun around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spun | cc |
| 3 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 whirled | conj |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 spun | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spin around | participle | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
jumped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
leaped and bounded about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bounded | cc |
| 3 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 leaped | conj |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 leaped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bound | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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