Test 1 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

Mate, what was the lad about to get dunked in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, dunk · To what, where: lad

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1238 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a ship saves the boy, and the king sets three 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lad	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 dunked	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	10 dunked	mark
9	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 dunked	aux:pass
10	dunked	dunk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lad	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 dunked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the lad	the lad					tree rules
2	dunk	to-infinitive · passive							vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»

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 · ← Mova's choice

oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

hot molten lead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lead	amod
2	molten	molten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lead	amod
3	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

boiling pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 pitch	amod
2	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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