Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

Yo, what did the son do to the Demon on holy days?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: son · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Demon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Demon	det
10	Demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 days	case
12	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 days	amod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the son				day	to the Demon	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

tie it up and spit in its eye every holy day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tie	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 tie	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spit	cc
5	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 tie	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spit	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
10	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spit	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	spit	present	you not said here			its eye	day		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

kick it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

spit in its face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 face	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 spit	nmod

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

Option 4

pull its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	its tail					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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