Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays th…

sus, what was the witch pretending to be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sus, witch · What happens: be, pretend · To what, where: witch

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sus	appos
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 witch	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 be	mark
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pretending	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	sus	the witch	tree rules
2	pretend	gerund	the witch not said here		tree rules
3	be	to-infinitive	the witch not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

a wandering monk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monk	det
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 monk	amod
3	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a beggar-woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woman	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 beggar	punct
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beggar	det
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a hag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hag	det
2	hag	hag	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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