Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

What do you reckon fixes the trees, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: reckon, fix · To what, where: trees

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fixes	csubj
5	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fixes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fixes	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	5 fixes	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fixes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present · do-support	you						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	fix	present		the trees					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=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 · ✓ the right answer

sprinkle water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sprinkle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	imperative	you not said here	water					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

pray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

use magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	magic					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient

Option 4

rub some oil in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 oil	det
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rub	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	1 rub	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	some oil					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oil=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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