Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Iv…

Why was the wheat so old?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wheat · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1128 «Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Ivan is tricked and the dragon is fooled, then the maiden becomes a fish» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 old	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheat	det
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wheat					old 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 · ✓ the right answer

It was ready for the sickle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ready	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	cop
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sickle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sickle	det
6	sickle	sickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ready	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					for the sickle; ready property	tree rules

Option 2

The wheat was old because the farmer had forgotten to cut it in the summer rains of last year

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wheat	det
2	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 forgotten	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forgotten	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forgotten	aux
9	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 old	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cut	mark
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forgotten	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cut	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 rains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rains	det
15	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rains	compound
16	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cut	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 year	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 year	amod
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rains	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wheat			old property	tree rules
2	forget	past · perfect	the farmer				tree rules
3	not cut	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here	farmer	the summer rains of last year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	rain			last year			nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

It had grown in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grown	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	It			the rain			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It had been sown a hundred years ago and nobody had cut it since

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sown	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sown	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sown	aux:pass
4	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 sown	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cut	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 cut	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	aux
12	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sown	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cut	obj
14	since	since	ADP	_	12 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sow	past · perfect · passive		It				ago property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	cut	past · perfect	nobody	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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