Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…

what kind of horse did Ivan say he got?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kind, Ivan · What happens: say, get · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 430 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga, rescues Marya, and burns Koshchei» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 horse	case
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	what kind of horse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	past	Ivan						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 flying one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

one that flies like a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 one	acl:relcl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present						like a bird	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

one that runs like the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 one	acl:relcl
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present						like the wind	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

one that flies higher than any bird in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 flies	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 flies	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 higher	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sky	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	one			the sky		high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=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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