Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…
sus, what did the princess tell him to touch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sus · What happens: do, tell, touch · To what, where: princess, him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 431 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan finds a horse, flings a rock, and reaches his mother» 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 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 sus | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 touch | mark |
| 10 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | sus | the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | sus | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | touch not said to happen | to-infinitive | sus not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 chink in the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chink | det |
| 2 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chink | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bolt on the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bolt | det |
| 2 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bolt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The lock on the iron gate of the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lock | det |
| 2 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 5 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gate | amod |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lock | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A hidden hole behind the golden throne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hole | det |
| 2 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hole | amod |
| 3 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 throne | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 throne | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 throne | amod |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hole | nmod |
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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