Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan…

bro, where was the prince when Ivan found him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: be, find · To what, where: prince, him

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1133 «Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, and the brothers meet again» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 prince	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 prince	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prince	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 found	advmod
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prince	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the prince					tree rules
2	find	past	Ivan	him = he					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

on a tomb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 tomb	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tomb	det
3	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

herding geese by a well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	herding	herd	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 herding	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 herding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	gerund		geese				by a well	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goose=Patient

Option 3

in a field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 field	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

tending swine on a tomb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tending	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tomb	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tomb	det
5	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	gerund		swine		a tomb			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=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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