Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…
So the Demon was basically undercover, right? Pretending to be what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Demon · What happens: be, pretend
This is test 7 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: So the Demon was basically undercover, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 undercover | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Demon | det |
| 3 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 undercover | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 undercover | cop |
| 5 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 6 undercover | advmod |
| 6 | undercover | undercover | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 undercover | punct |
| 8 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 undercover | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 undercover | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Demon | basically, undercover property | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Pretending to be what?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 what | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Pretending | obl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pretending | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a stranger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
an apprentice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 apprentice | det |
| 2 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a young apprentice working at the forge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apprentice | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apprentice | amod |
| 3 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 apprentice | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 forge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forge | det |
| 7 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 working | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | gerund | a young apprentice not said here | at the forge | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at forge=Theme |
Option 4
a handsome youth from a distant village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 2 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 youth | amod |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 6 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 village | amod |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 youth | nmod |
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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