Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

Who got the boiling water thrown at her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, throw · To what, where: boiling water

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
6	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 water	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thrown	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the boiling water					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
2	throw	participle		the boiling water not said here				at her = she	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at she=Destination

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

The daughter who had been told not to do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 told	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 daughter	acl:relcl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the daughter					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the daughter not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The dead witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The old granny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 granny	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 granny	amod
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The little demon who was dragging the flesh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 demon	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 demon	amod
3	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dragging	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dragging	aux
6	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 demon	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flesh	det
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dragging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past · progressive	the little demon	the flesh					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme

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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