Test 12 · ★ · Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three s…

Fam, what did the brothers want to do at the apple-tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fam, brothers · What happens: do, want · To what, where: apple tree

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 apple	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past	Fam		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the brothers		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	the apple tree	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

eat an apple apiece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 apiece	det
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apiece	compound
4	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	a apple apiece					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apiece=Patient

Option 2

eat all the apples from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 apples	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apples	det
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 eat	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	all apples		the tree			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

Option 3

pick an apple each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 apple	det
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pick	obj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	a apple					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent apple=Beneficiary each=Theme

Option 4

climb up and eat every apple on the apple-tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 climb	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eat	cc
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 climb	conj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 apple	det
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 apple	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	you not said here	every apple		the apple tree			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

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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