Test 3 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…
Bruv, how many snakes come piling up to the cottage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many snakes · What happens: come, pile up
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snakes | amod |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bruv | conj |
| 7 | piling | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 come | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 piling | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piling | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | many snakes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pile up | gerund | many snakes not said here | to the cottage | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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 proper huge troop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 troop | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 troop | amod |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 troop | amod |
| 4 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A proper small group
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 group | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 group | amod |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 group | amod |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Like, a massive pile of them all crawling in together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 pile | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pile | det |
| 4 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pile | amod |
| 5 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pile | nmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pile | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 crawling | obl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 crawling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | gerund | a massive pile of them not said here | together property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A proper huge troop slithering in from everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 troop | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 troop | amod |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 troop | amod |
| 4 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | slithering | slither | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 troop | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 slithering | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 everywhere | case |
| 8 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 slithering | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slither | gerund | a proper huge troop not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from everywhere=Trajectory |
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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