Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

ngl, what did the eldest bro ask his dad for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest bro · What happens: ask · To what, where: dad

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ask	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 ask	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bro	det
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bro	amod
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	nsubj
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dad	nmod:poss
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	8 ask	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	the eldest bro		bro's dad			ngl vocative	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

His dad's old horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His dad's blessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blessing	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless		His dad						nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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