Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…
Wait, what's a sabre, is that a fancy knife or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: sabre, fancy knife
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1129 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal saves the brothers from Wednesday and the youngest wins the Tsar's favour» 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 | _ | 6 sabre | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 sabre | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sabre | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sabre | det |
| 6 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knife | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 knife | cop |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 knife | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knife | det |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knife | amod |
| 12 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 what | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knife | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | 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 | is a | present | a sabre | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a fancy knife | 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
A curved sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
Option 2
A long spear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spear | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spear | amod |
| 3 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A curved sword used by horsemen in the old days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sword | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 horsemen | case |
| 6 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 days | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 days | amod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 2 | use | participle | a curved sword not said here | day | by horsemen | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A curved sword that the Tsar's soldiers carry on their belts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Tsar | case |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sword | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 belts | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 belts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 2 | carry | present | the Tsar's soldiers | soldiers's belts | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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