Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

fr, how many chains was the horse tied with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be, tie · To what, where: horse

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chains	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chains	amod
5	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fr	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 horse	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 horse	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	9 tied	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 horse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fr and many chains	the horse					tree rules
2	tie	participle		the horse not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

Twelve iron chains of great weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chains	nummod
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chains	compound
3	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 weight	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weight	amod
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chains	nmod

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

Option 2

Twenty chains bound with silver rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 chains	nummod
2	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chains	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rings	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rings	compound
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	participle		Twenty chains not said here				with silver rings	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with ring=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Eleven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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