Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Wise: the Prince forgets…

What did the hen dove say when asked for curds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hen dove · What happens: do, say, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 437 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Wise: the Prince forgets his bride, then the doves remind 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dove	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dove	compound
5	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 asked	advmod
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 say	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 curds	case
10	curds	curd	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the hen dove		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	participle	the hen dove not said here	for curds	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No I won't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wo	discourse
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wo	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 wo	advmod

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

Option 2

Not a crumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 crumb	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crumb	det
3	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, take some of the curds for your mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 curds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 curds	det
7	curds	curd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 some	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 mate	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mate	nmod:poss
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	some				for your mate	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent some=Theme for mate=Beneficiary

Option 4

Go away now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	imperative	you not said here				now	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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