Test 1 · ★ · Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers…

Yo, so what was the serpent's first task, fr?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first task, serpent · What happens: be, task

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 task	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 serpent	case
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 task	amod
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fr	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 task	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the serpent's first task and fr						tree rules
2	task		the serpent						nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Thresh all the corn in the barn by morning or perish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thresh	thresh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 corn	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corn	det
4	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thresh	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 barn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barn	det
7	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thresh	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 morning	case
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thresh	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 perish	cc
11	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Thresh	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thresh	imperative	you not said here	all corn		the barn	morning		tree rules
2	perish	infinitive	you not said here						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Gather the hay by morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hay	det
3	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gather	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 morning	case
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gather	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	imperative	you not said here	the hay			morning		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Thresh and sift three hundred ricks of corn by morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thresh	thresh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sift	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sift	cc
3	sift	sift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ricks	nummod
6	ricks	rick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sift	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 corn	case
8	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ricks	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 morning	case
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sift	infinitive	Thresh	hundred ricks of corn			morning		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rick=Patient
2	rick			corn					nom rick «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thresh the corn by morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thresh	thresh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corn	det
3	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thresh	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 morning	case
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thresh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thresh	imperative	you not said here	the corn			morning		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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