Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…
Lol, what did the demon do at the window?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: demon · What happens: do · To what, where: window
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demon | det |
| 6 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | the demon | the window | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Stared and asked where to hide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stared | conj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 hide | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hide | mark |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Ran back to the pit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ran | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Ran | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 pit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pit | det |
| 5 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | participle | to the pit result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pit=Result |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Shouted and ran away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shouted | conj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | run away | past | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Stared at them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stared | stare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Stared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | participle | at them = they | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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.
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