Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

Dude, who sat on the mound and took snuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: sit, take · To what, where: mound, snuff

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 mound	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mound	det
7	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Dude			the mound			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location
2	take	past	Dude not said here	snuff					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=Theme

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

the Ant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ant	det
2	Ant	Ant	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Frog	det
2	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Sparrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sparrow	det
2	Sparrow	Sparrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Cricket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cricket	det
2	Cricket	cricket	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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