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

Sus, how did the beggars check the letter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: beggars · What happens: check · To what, where: letter

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 check	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 check	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 check	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beggars	det
6	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	nsubj
7	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sus	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 letter	det
9	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 check	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past · do-support	the beggars	the letter					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

They blew on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	They			it			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They burned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	They	it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

They sniffed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	They	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

They blew on it and then waited until the seal began to melt slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waited	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 waited	advmod
7	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seal	det
10	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 waited	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 melt	mark
13	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 melt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	They	it			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	wait	past	They not said here		then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the seal				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	melt	to-infinitive	the seal not said here			slowly 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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