Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the stepmother's daughter…

was the Sun-Hero's horse just a regular horse or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: horse

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1725 «Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the stepmother's daughter is frozen while the girl is saved» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hero	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Hero	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Sun	punct
5	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Hero	case
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horse	csubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 horse	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
10	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horse	amod
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 horse	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 horse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Sun Hero's horse					tree rules

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

it was normal, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 normal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 normal	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 normal	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					normal property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it was magic and could fly, wow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 magic	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	cop
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 magic	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wow	punct
8	wow	wow	INTJ	_	3 magic	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					magic property	tree rules
2	fly	could							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it talked, ate, and ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	past	it		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run away	past		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it talked and never slept, mind blown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slept	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 slept	advmod
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mind	punct
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obj
8	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 slept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	talk	past	it		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not sleep	past		mind	tree rules
3	blow	participle			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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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