Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise,…

Mate, how many seas did the Eagle chuck him in?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Eagle · What happens: do, chuck · To what, where: him

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seas	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seas	amod
5	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mate	conj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Eagle	det
8	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 chuck	nsubj
9	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chuck	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	9 chuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate and many seas						tree rules
2	chuck	present	the Eagle	him = he					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

three seas, bare mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seas	nummod
2	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seas	punct
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mad	amod
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seas	appos

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

Option 2

three lakes, dead scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lakes	nummod
2	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lakes	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scary	amod
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lakes	amod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

two seas, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seas	nummod
2	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seas	punct
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 seas	discourse

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

three seas, proper scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seas	nummod
2	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seas	punct
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scary	amod
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seas	amod

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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