Test 5 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Golden Mermaid: the Prince catche…
wait, which emperor gave up the mermaid, the horse one or the bird one?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, emperor · What happens: wait, give up · To what, where: mermaid
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1935 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Golden Mermaid: the Prince catches the mermaid, but his jealous brothers kill him and the wolf brings him back to life» 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 | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 gave | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mermaid | det |
| 8 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 horse | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mermaid | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 horse | flat |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | compound |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give up | past | which emperor | the mermaid and the horse | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Source |
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 right answer
the horse one, the first one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 horse | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the bird one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the first one, the bird guy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guy | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guy | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guy | compound |
| 7 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
both of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 both | 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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