Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…
No cap, did the whale really swallow Mark's ships?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: swallow · To what, where: ships
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallow | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swallow | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whale | det |
| 6 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 swallow | advmod |
| 8 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ships | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Mark | case |
| 11 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 swallow | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 swallow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past · do-support | no cap | Mark's ships | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
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
Yes, but only ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 ten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 ten | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 ten | advmod |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, every single one of the twelve ships, with all the sailors aboard them
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ships | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ships | det |
| 8 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 ships | nummod |
| 9 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailors | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sailors | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 sailors | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sailors | det |
| 14 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | conj |
| 15 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sailors | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, all twelve of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 twelve | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 twelve | det |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 twelve | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, none of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 none | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 none | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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