Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

Wicked, so what did the king go and do when he saw her star?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: go, do, see · To what, where: star

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 go	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 do	cc
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 saw	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 star	nmod:poss
15	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past · do-support			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	king	her star	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

fell on his knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 knees	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 knees	nmod:poss
4	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past				his knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location

Option 2

bowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	participle							vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

knelt down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knelt	kneel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 knelt	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneel down	participle							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

shouted for his guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 guards	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 guards	nmod:poss
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle						for his guards	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for guard=Recipient

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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