Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Wise: the Prince forgets…

What did the doves do when the pie got cut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doves · What happens: do, cut · To what, where: pie

This is test 5 · ★ 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	4 doves	det
4	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 cut	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pie	det
8	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux:pass
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 do	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the doves		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cut	past · passive		the pie	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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

Pecked the guests and then flew out of the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guests	det
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pecked	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flew	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 flew	advmod
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pecked	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 window	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past		the guests					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient
2	fly out	past		the window			then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

Option 2

Ran off home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Ran	compound:prt
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	participle		home					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Flew right out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	3 out	advmod
3	out	out	ADV	_	1 Flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past						out property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Flew over the palace walls and away to the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	5 walls	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 walls	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walls	compound
5	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flew	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 away	cc
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 walls	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past				the palace walls		to the forest	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Location

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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