Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

Why was Kojata so thirsty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kojata · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 thirsty	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thirsty	cop
3	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thirsty	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 thirsty	advmod
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thirsty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kojata					thirsty property	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 · ✓ the right answer

The day was hot and sultry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sultry	cc
6	sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the day					hot property	tree rules
2	be		the day not said here						tree rules

Option 2

The road was long and dusty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dusty	cc
6	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the road					long property	tree rules
2	be		the road not said here						tree rules

Option 3

He had ridden far today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ridden	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ridden	aux
3	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ridden	advmod
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ridden	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect	He				today	far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Too much sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sun	amod
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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