Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daughter, part…

Wait, what's a Genii thing, like a ghost?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Genii thing

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1806 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daughter, part 57: the princess beats three monsters and swaps the genius's flowers» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	Genii	Genii	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ghost	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 ghost	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ghost	det
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					like a ghost	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a Genii thing					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 · ← Mova's choice

a sort of spirit or wicked ghost that haunts the old mountain pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 spirit	case
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 ghost	cc
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ghost	amod
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 haunts	nsubj
9	haunts	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sort	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pass	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pass	amod
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	compound
13	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 haunts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	present	a sort of spirit or wicked ghost	the old mountain pass					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pass=Experiencer
2	sort			spirit					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a kind of spirit, like a genie, that lives in lamps and bottles

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lives	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 spirit	case
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 genie	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 genie	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 genie	det
8	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lives	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lives	nsubj
11	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 lamps	case
13	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lives	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bottles	cc
15	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lamps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a kind of spirit and a genie			lamps and bottles			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lamp=Location

Option 3

a spirit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spirit	det
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a kind of spirit like a genie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 spirit	case
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 genie	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 genie	det
7	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	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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