Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turn…

no way, who was the horse really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: be · To what, where: horse

This is test 6 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 horse	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	conj
8	really	really	ADV	_	7 horse	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no way and the horse	the horse					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

a grey horse his father once rode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	appos
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 rode	advmod
7	rode	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 horse	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his own father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Devil himself

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	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Devil	nmod

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

Option 4

his own father, who had been turned into the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 turned	aux:pass
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 father	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect · passive		his own father				into the horse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into horse=Result

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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