Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

wait, what's an outlandish bird even mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, outlandish bird · What happens: wait, be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 mean	obj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mean	nsubj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a outlandish bird					mean property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a strange bird from some faraway place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 place	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 place	det
6	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod

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

Option 2

a strange bird from some faraway place across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 place	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 place	det
6	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nmod

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

Option 3

a bird that cannot fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fly	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fly	advmod
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bird	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	a bird						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a strange bird that comes from some faraway place and talks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bird	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 place	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 place	det
8	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 talks	cc
11	talks	talk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 place	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a strange bird			some faraway place and talks			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location

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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