Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith bur…
did the lovers, I mean the lord and lady, end up okay?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: do, mean, end up · To what, where: lovers, lord
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 422 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith burns the seigneur, then the Demon saves him» 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lovers | det |
| 3 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 did | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lord | det |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lady | cc |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lord | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
| 12 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 end | compound:prt |
| 14 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 end | xcomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the lovers | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | I | the lord and lady | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Topic | ||||
| 3 | end up | present | I not said here | okay property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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 right answer
Yeah, living their best life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 living | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 living | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | their best life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
Option 2
Not really, they split up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 split | advmod |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 split | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 split | nsubj |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 split | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not split up | past | they | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yes, happily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 happily | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Kind of, but it was complicated
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Kind | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 complicated | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 complicated | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 complicated | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 complicated | cop |
| 7 | complicated | complicated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Kind | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kind | complicated property | tree rules |
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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