Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…
Lol, the women said "what's this marvel"? What's a marvel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: women · What happens: say, be · To what, where: marvel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 414 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch's skin, and her body vanishes» 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
Sentence 1: Lol, the women said "what's this marvel"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 women | det |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 marvel | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 marvel | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 marvel | cop |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 marvel | det |
| 10 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 marvel | punct |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the women | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this marvel | 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.
Sentence 2: What's a marvel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 marvel | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 marvel | det |
| 4 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a marvel | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Something boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Something | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Something cold and wet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wet | cc |
| 4 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Something wonderful and weird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 weird | cc |
| 4 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wonderful | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Something strange and scary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 scary | cc |
| 4 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 strange | conj |
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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