Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

Ngl, did the youngest come out of the milk all old and gross?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, youngest · What happens: do, come out · To what, where: all

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 milk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 milk	det
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 come	obl
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 all	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gross	cc
14	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come out	present	the youngest	all				of the milk; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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

Yes, old and very sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sick	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sick	advmod
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 old	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, he came out older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 came	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	he					old, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, younger and handsomer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 younger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 younger	punct
3	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 handsomer	cc
5	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 younger	conj

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

Option 4

No, he was old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					old property	tree rules

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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