Test 5 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and the Brides from the O…
So was the Prince proper ill-dressed when he got to the other world?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: dress, get · To what, where: Prince
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1532 «Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and the Brides from the Other World: the brothers' trick and the Prince as a tailor's lad» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dressed | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dressed | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ill | punct |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dressed | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Prince | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Prince | to the other world result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result |
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
Nah, he wore a shiny suit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wore | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 suit | det |
| 6 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 suit | amod |
| 7 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | he | a shiny suit | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent suit=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, he was dressed like a king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 dressed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | he | like a king | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
Nah, he was in armour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 armour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 armour | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 armour | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 armour | case |
| 6 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | armour | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he looked like a total scruff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 scruff | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 scruff | det |
| 7 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scruff | amod |
| 8 | scruff | scruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | he | like a total scruff | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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