Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…
wait, the mares were in the sea up to their necks, right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mares · What happens: wait up, be · To what, where: sea
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mares | det |
| 4 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sea | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sea | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 wait | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 necks | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 necks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 wait | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| 14 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 wait | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait up | imperative | you not said here | to mares's necks | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the mares | the sea | 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
no, only up to their knees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 knees | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 knees | advmod |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 up | fixed |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, they were stuck all the way up to the neck in the cold water
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuck | cop |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 way | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 up | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 stuck | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 neck | det |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 up | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | the cold water | stuck property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, all the way up to the neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 way | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 way | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 way | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 neck | det |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 way | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, up to their ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 ears | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ears | punct |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 ears | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ears | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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