Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…
ok but what even is the Water of Death?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Water
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 429 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain and revived, then tricks the Baba Yaga's mares and is helped by the creatures he spared» 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 Water | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Water | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Water | det |
| 7 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Death | case |
| 9 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Water | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Water | of Death | tree rules |
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 holy water from the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 2 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a magic water that brings him back to life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 brings | nsubj |
| 5 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 water | acl:relcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brings | iobj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 brings | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | present | a magic water | him = he | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination |
Option 3
a magic water that brings the dead back to life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 brings | nsubj |
| 5 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 water | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 back | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 back | amod |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | a magic water | the dead back | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to life=Destination |
Option 4
a poison that kills him fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poison | det |
| 2 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 kills | nsubj |
| 4 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 poison | acl:relcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kills | obj |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 kills | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | a poison | him = he | fast property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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