Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…
Be real, what did the girl pretend to dream about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, girl · What happens: be, pretend, dream
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 real | cop |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretend | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 pretend | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretend | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pretend | nsubj |
| 8 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 real | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dream | mark |
| 10 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretend | xcomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 dream | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past · do-support | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dream | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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
A wide road and an oak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 road | amod |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 oak | cc |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 oak | det |
| 6 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 road | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A castle and a gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gate | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 castle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A wide road leading to a great oak tree with golden roots under it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 road | amod |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 road | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tree | amod |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leading | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 roots | case |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 roots | amod |
| 12 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leading | obl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 roots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | a wide road not said here | to a great oak tree; with golden roots under tree | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to tree=Patient |
Option 4
A river and a tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tree | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 river | conj |
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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