Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan'…

what was he begging for, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: beg

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 428 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan's sisters wed three birds, then he frees Koshchei and searches for his 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 begging	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begging	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begging	nsubj
4	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 begging	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	4 begging	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 begging	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past · progressive	he						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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 bit of bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a drink of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	nmod

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

Option 3

a big cold drink of water from the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drink	amod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drink	amod
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	nmod

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

Option 4

a drink of water, like, right now, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	2 drink	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 like	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	conj

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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