Test 2 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…
Yeah, but did the king say the burning could wait?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, burning · What happens: say, wait · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 say | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 burning | det |
| 9 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | aux |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait | could | the burning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
yeah, but only till the ship came into the harbour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 ship | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 harbour | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harbour | det |
| 11 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the ship | the harbour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into harbour=Initial_Location |
Option 2
nah, till the sun set
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 set | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 3 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 set | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | compound |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, till the ship came in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the ship | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
yeah, till the fire died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 died | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | nsubj |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the fire | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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