Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…
Yo, so the hottie at the gathering was literally the Devil?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hottie · What happens: be · To what, where: Devil
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 412 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thread to a church, sees her sweetheart's terrible secret, and learns that her parents will die» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 12 Devil | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 Devil | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hottie | det |
| 5 | hottie | hottie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Devil | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gathering | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gathering | det |
| 8 | gathering | gathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hottie | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Devil | cop |
| 10 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 12 Devil | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Devil | det |
| 12 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 Devil | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the hottie at the gathering | the Devil | literally 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
Yeah, he was a rich merchant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 merchant | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 merchant | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 merchant | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 merchant | amod |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a rich merchant | tree rules |
Option 2
Nope, he was just a stranger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 7 stranger | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stranger | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stranger | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 stranger | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a stranger | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was the Fiend in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 Fiend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Fiend | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fiend | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fiend | det |
| 6 | Fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 disguise | case |
| 8 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiend | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | the Fiend | disguise | tree rules |
Option 4
Nope, just a guy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 guy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 guy | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 guy | det |
| 5 | guy | guy | 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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