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

Ngl, what did the Demon call the son's behaviour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, Demon · What happens: do, call · To what, where: behaviour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	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	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 behaviour	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 son	case
11	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the Demon	the son's behaviour					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent behaviour=Recipient

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

disrespectful behaviour towards his father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	disrespectful	disrespectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 behaviour	amod
2	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 behaviour	nmod

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

Option 2

spite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

boldness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boldness	boldness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

insolence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	insolence	insolence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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