Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

Bro, what did the Fiend threaten her with?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fiend · What happens: threaten · To what, where: Bro

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fiend	det
6	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	acl:relcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threaten	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	7 threaten	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the Fiend	Bro					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer she=Result

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

Her mom would faint tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mom	nmod:poss
2	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faint	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 faint	aux
4	faint	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faint	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	would	Her mom				tomorrow		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her mom would die tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mom	nmod:poss
2	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	Her mom				tomorrow		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Her whole family would die by the next evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 family	nmod:poss
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evening	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 evening	amod
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	Her whole family				evening		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Her life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	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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