Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

Lush, what's the scary thing living in the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lush, scary thing · What happens: be, live · To what, where: scary thing, river

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lush	Lush	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lush	appos
8	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 thing	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 living	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lush	the scary thing					tree rules
2	live	gerund	the scary thing not said here			the river			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location

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

a sea monster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monster	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monster	compound
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a huge wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wolf	amod
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a seven-headed beast with fiery breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beast	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 headed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 seven	punct
4	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beast	amod
5	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 breath	case
7	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 breath	amod
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beast	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a serpent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 serpent	det
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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