Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

Ok fr, what did the ferryman row for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ok fr · What happens: do · To what, where: ferryman row

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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	Ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fr	amod
2	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 row	det
7	ferryman	ferryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 row	compound
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	5 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ok fr	the ferryman row					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Eventuality

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

Twenty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Thirty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Thirty years of rowing without any rest or pay at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rowing	obl:unmarked
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 rowing	mark
4	rowing	row	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rowing	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 pay	cc
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rowing	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	gerund					year	without any rest	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	pay	infinitive				all			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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