Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

lowkey, how long did the eagle munch on each cow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, eagle · What happens: do, munch

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 munch	nsubj
8	munch	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 cow	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 munch	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey					long property	tree rules
2	munch	present	the eagle					on each cow	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on cow=Patient

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

one long season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 season	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 season	amod
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a whole year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a whole year, then he started on the next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 started	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 year	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 started	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 started	nsubj
7	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 next	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 next	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	he			the next	then; year		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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