Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

What is "skazka" in the book, like what's it called?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: call · To what, where: skazka · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 called	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skazka	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 skazka	punct
4	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	14 called	nsubj:pass
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 skazka	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 book	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skazka	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 called	nsubj:pass
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		skazka					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result

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

A type of old prayer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 type	det
2	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 prayer	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prayer	amod
5	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 type	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	type			old prayer					nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A folk tale told aloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tale	compound
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tale	acl
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	4 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		a folk tale not said here				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A Russian folk tale told aloud to listeners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tale	det
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tale	amod
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tale	compound
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 listeners	case
8	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a Russian folk tale		listeners			aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to listener=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A kind of Russian fable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fable	case
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fable	amod
5	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	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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