Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and t…
Bro, which dude was actually the Devil?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: Devil
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1130 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents, part 36: Ivan Golik joins the prince and saves the mice» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Devil | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dude | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 dude | det |
| 4 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Devil | cop |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 Devil | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Devil | det |
| 8 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Devil | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bro and which dude | the Devil | actually 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 old guy with the stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 stick | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the old goat with two horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goat | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goat | amod |
| 3 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 horns | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 horns | nummod |
| 6 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the young shepherd who kept calling the goat his brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shepherd | amod |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goat | det |
| 8 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calling | obj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the young shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | the young shepherd not said here | the goat | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme brother=Result |
Option 4
the fancy man in the silver coat who gave the poor guy bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 coat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coat | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coat | amod |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bread | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bread | amod |
| 12 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bread | compound |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the fancy man in the silver coat | the poor guy bread | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
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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