Test 13 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the…

Okay, last one, what did Martin call himself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Martin · What happens: call · To what, where: last one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 call	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 call	aux
8	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 one	acl:relcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 call	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	Martin	last one					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme himself=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

Hungry and cold in tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cold	cc
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hungry	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 tower	case
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hungry	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Almost starved to death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 starved	advmod
2	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 death	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	participle						to death; almost property	tree rules

Option 3

Almost starved to death in a high stone tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 starved	advmod
2	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 death	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starved	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 tower	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tower	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tower	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tower	compound
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	participle				a high stone tower		to death; almost property	tree rules

Option 4

Nearly frozen to the bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 frozen	advmod
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bone	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bone	det
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle						to the bone; nearly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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