Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

Real talk, why did the demon get scared at the window?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, get · To what, where: demon, Real talk

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 418 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon from a pit and cures the town» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 demon	det
7	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scared	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the demon					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Eventuality
2	get	present		Real talk				scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 right answer

The shouting outside about the Bad Wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shouting	det
2	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 shouting	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 Wife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wife	det
6	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Wife	amod
7	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouting	nmod

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

Option 2

The men shouting about a wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shouting	nsubj
3	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund	the men					about a wife	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wife=Topic

Option 3

The dogs barking at the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 barking	nsubj
3	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund	the dogs					at the house	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at house=Stimulus

Option 4

The shouting outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shouting	det
2	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 shouting	advmod

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.

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