Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…
who's the girl in the palace?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 416 «Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha visits the Devil's palace and finds his drowned father there as a horse» 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=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 who | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 who | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 who | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the girl in the palace | 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
a girl stolen from her village by the devils, super sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 girl | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 village | nmod:poss |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stolen | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 devils | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 devils | det |
| 9 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stolen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sad | punct |
| 11 | super | super | ADV | _ | 12 sad | advmod |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 girl | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | participle | a girl not said here | girl's village | by the devils | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by devil=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a girl stolen from her village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 girl | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 village | nmod:poss |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stolen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | participle | a girl not said here | girl's village | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
a girl taken from the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 girl | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | participle | a girl not said here | the town | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from town=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the devil's girl from the village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 devil | det |
| 2 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 devil | case |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/416-pg22373-part8/t8/