Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

Be honest, what's the Bad Wife's whole deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: whole deal

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deal	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deal	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 deal	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 deal	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wife	det
7	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Wife	amod
8	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deal	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Wife	case
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deal	amod
11	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						honest property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the Bad Wife's whole deal					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

She's sad and always cries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cries	cc
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 cries	advmod
6	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					sad property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	present	She not said here					always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She's rude and always fights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fights	cc
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fights	advmod
6	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					rude property	tree rules

Option 3

She's nasty, bites people and never shuts up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nasty	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nasty	cop
3	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bites	punct
5	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nasty	conj
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bites	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shuts	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 shuts	advmod
9	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nasty	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 shuts	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		nasty property	tree rules
2	bite	present	She not said here	people		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	not shut up	present	She not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She's nasty and never shuts up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nasty	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nasty	cop
3	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shuts	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 shuts	advmod
6	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nasty	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 shuts	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					nasty property	tree rules
2	not shut up	present	She not said here						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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