Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turn…
ngl, what did Petrusha ask the Devil for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Petrusha · What happens: ask · To what, where: Devil
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 417 «Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turns out to be his father» 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 ask | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ask | aux |
| 5 | Petrusha | Petrusha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Devil | det |
| 8 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ask | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | Petrusha | the Devil | ngl vocative | 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
the sorry old horse for the cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 cart | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cart | det |
| 7 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the old jade for wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jade | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jade | amod |
| 3 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jade | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the sorry old jade for wood and water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jade | det |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jade | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jade | amod |
| 4 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jade | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jade | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the old jade for carrying wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jade | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jade | amod |
| 3 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 carrying | mark |
| 5 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 jade | acl |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carrying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | the old jade not said here | wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/417-pg22373-part9/t1/