Test 9 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

So what did the old woman grab to deal with Osip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, deal · To what, where: old woman grab

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grab	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grab	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	compound
7	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 deal	mark
9	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grab	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Osip	case
11	Osip	Osip	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deal	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old woman grab					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=Eventuality
2	deal	to-infinitive		the old woman grab not said here				with Osip	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with osip=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

A hoe, she oiled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hoe	det
2	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oiled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hoe	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 oiled	nsubj
5	oiled	oil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 oiled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oil	past	a hoe	it					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 2

A knife, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knife	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knife	conj

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

Option 3

A stick, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stick	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An axe, she sharpened it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 axe	det
2	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sharpened	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 axe	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sharpened	nsubj
5	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sharpened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	past	a axe	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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