Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

so what did the words on the rock say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: words · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	nmod
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the words on the rock						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Peace will fall now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	future	Peace				now		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Riches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Fame will come soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	Fame					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A way will open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 open	aux
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

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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