Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks…
Wait, an ox came out of the egg?! Pure mad. What did the she-dragon want for fixing it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ox, she dragon · What happens: wait, come out, do, want, fix · To what, where: egg, dragon
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Wait, an ox came out of the egg?!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ox | det |
| 4 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 egg | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 egg | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 egg | det |
| 9 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | ?! | ?! | 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 | come out | past | a ox | the egg | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient egg=Result |
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.
Sentence 2: Pure mad.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mad | amod |
| 2 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mad | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What did the she-dragon want for fixing it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dragon | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 she | punct |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 fixing | mark |
| 9 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fixing | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the she dragon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fix not said to happen | gerund | the she dragon not said here | dragon | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
His ox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ox | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
What he had at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 had | obj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
Option 4
His wife and kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kids | cc |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wife | conj |
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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