Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks…
Lol, the lucky penny, what was that the dad offered him?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: lucky penny · What happens: be · To what, where: him
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1127 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks, the dragon claims Ivan, and his three tasks begin» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 penny | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 penny | det |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 penny | amod |
| 5 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 offered | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 offered | obj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 offered | cop |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 offered | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dad | det |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | nsubj |
| 12 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 offered | iobj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lucky penny | him = he | offer property | 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 lucky penny for his long journey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 penny | det |
| 2 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penny | amod |
| 3 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 penny | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | his = he | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
A small penny said to bring good luck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 penny | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penny | amod |
| 3 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | xcomp |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 luck | amod |
| 8 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a small penny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | a small penny not said here | good luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |
Option 3
A golden cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cup | amod |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A lucky penny
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 penny | det |
| 2 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penny | amod |
| 3 | penny | penny | 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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