Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise,…

Okay, why did the King keep feeding the Eagle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: keep, feed · To what, where: Eagle

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 435 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, part 27: a wife's curse on her children, then a King and an Eagle» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Eagle	det
10	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 feeding	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the King						tree rules
2	feed	gerund	the King not said here		the Eagle				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient

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

cos it moaned at him, proper needy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moaned	nsubj
3	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moaned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 needy	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 needy	amod
8	needy	needy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	moan	past	it					at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus

Option 2

cos it kept on begging, dead needy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cos	obj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cos	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 begging	case
5	begging	begging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cos	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 needy	amod
8	needy	needy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	keep	participle	you not said here			begging			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on begging=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos it begged him, dead desperate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 desperate	punct
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 desperate	amod
7	desperate	desperate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here	dead desperate					tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	it		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

cos it was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	it					hungry property	tree rules

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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