Test 12 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…
Did the daughter reckon her life down there was rubbish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: daughter, rubbish · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: life
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 was | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | advcl |
| 10 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the daughter | daughter's life | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent life=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | be | past | rubbish | there | down property | vn exist-47.1 «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
Nah, way better than Mum's here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 better | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 better | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 Mum | case |
| 6 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Mum | case |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 better | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, just as bad, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 bad | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 bad | advmod |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bad | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, worse than home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 worse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 worse | punct |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worse | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, same as here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 same | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 here | case |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 same | obl |
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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