Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

Fr, the witch said don't wash her with what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: say, not wash · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 witch	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	conj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 wash	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wash	advmod
8	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wash	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wash	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fr and the witch						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not wash	infinitive · do-support	Fr and the witch not said here	her = she					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with what=Instrument

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

Warm salty water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lukewarm water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lukewarm	Lukewarm	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 water	compound
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Water from the stream that had been standing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 stream	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stream	det
4	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 standing	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 standing	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 standing	aux
8	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stream	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect · progressive	the stream						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Boiling water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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