Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and the Brides from the O…
Lowkey, what did the tailor reckon about him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tailor · What happens: reckon
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lowkey | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 reckon | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckon | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tailor | det |
| 6 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reckon | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the tailor | about Lowkey; Lowkey vocative | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute |
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
He was a secret prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prince | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prince | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a secret prince | tree rules |
Option 2
He was a lazy waste
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waste | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waste | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 waste | det |
| 4 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waste | amod |
| 5 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a lazy waste | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was a good worker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worker | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worker | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 worker | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worker | amod |
| 5 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a good worker | tree rules |
Option 4
He was a wizard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wizard | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wizard | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wizard | det |
| 4 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a wizard | tree rules |
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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