Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…
Was the gathering just one short evening, or a whole week?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: gathering
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathering | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gathering | det |
| 3 | gathering | gathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 evening | csubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 evening | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 evening | nummod |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 evening | amod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 week | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 week | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 week | amod |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 evening | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 evening | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the gathering | 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
Not just one evening but the entire season of harvest and festivals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 evening | advmod |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 evening | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 evening | nummod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 season | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 season | det |
| 7 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 season | amod |
| 8 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 harvest | case |
| 10 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 season | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 festivals | cc |
| 12 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 harvest | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A whole week or even longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 week | amod |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 longer | cc |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 week | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Several weeks, maybe months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weeks | amod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 months | punct |
| 4 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 5 months | advmod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 weeks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A whole week or even longer, until the feast ended
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 week | amod |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 feast | cc |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 or | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 or | punct |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 10 feast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 week | conj |
| 11 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | a whole week or the feast | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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