Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

Was the Fiend sad about the deaths, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fiend · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 sad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fiend	det
3	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	nsubj
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 deaths	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deaths	det
7	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sad	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sad	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fiend					about the deaths; sad 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

He was happy, lol

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 happy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 happy	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 happy	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					happy property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He acted sad, lol

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	2 acted	nsubj
2	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 acted	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 acted	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 acted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past	He					sad property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nope, happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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