Test 1 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

Wait, so who even believed a goat could cook?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, goat · What happens: wait, believe, cook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1907 «Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong man and are drowned themselves» 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	_	6 believed	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 believed	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 believed	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 believed	advmod
6	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 goat	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cook	aux
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 believed	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	believe	past		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cook	could	a goat	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: 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

The three rogues, dumb as bricks and very greedy for gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rogues	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 rogues	nummod
3	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dumb	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 bricks	case
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dumb	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 greedy	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 greedy	advmod
10	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dumb	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 gold	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 greedy	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The three rogues, dumb as bricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rogues	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 rogues	nummod
3	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rogues	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 bricks	case
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dumb	obl

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

Option 3

Nobody at all, because the goat could not cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nobody	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cook	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 cook	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goat	det
7	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cook	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cook	advmod
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nobody	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cook	could	the goat						vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The shepherd, a foolish man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shepherd	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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