Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

Where did the author say these foolish tales can be found?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: author · What happens: be, say, find · To what, where: foolish tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 420 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birch, the gold, and the goat's head» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 author	det
4	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 found	advcl
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 tales	det
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tales	amod
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the author		where property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	find	can · passive		this foolish tales		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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

Everywhere the old tales are told, from Siberia to the highlands of Scotland and beyond

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tales	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	amod
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Siberia	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Siberia	case
9	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 highlands	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 highlands	det
12	highlands	highland	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Scotland	case
14	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 highlands	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beyond	cc
16	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	6 told	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the old tales	Siberia			to the highlands of Scotland; everywhere property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient siberia=Topic

Option 2

In many lands, including Scotland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 lands	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lands	amod
3	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lands	punct
5	including	including	ADP	_	6 Scotland	case
6	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lands	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

All over the world, even in Scotland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	4 world	advmod
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Scotland	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 Scotland	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Scotland	case
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 world	appos

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

Option 4

All over the world, even in Scotland, Ireland, and deep into the Russian steppe

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	4 world	advmod
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Scotland	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 Scotland	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Scotland	case
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 world	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ireland	punct
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Scotland	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deep	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 deep	cc
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 world	amod
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 steppe	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 steppe	det
16	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 steppe	amod
17	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deep	obl

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

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