Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

So the witch just got bullied by oxen? lol

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: oxen · What happens: bully · To what, where: witch

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 440 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a towel and a comb» 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	_	6 bullied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bullied	nsubj:pass
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 bullied	advmod
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bullied	aux:pass
6	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 oxen	case
8	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bullied	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bullied	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 bullied	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	past · passive	oxen	the witch					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

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

Kinda, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	1 Kinda	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Pretty much, they drank the river dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	5 drank	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drank	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drank	nsubj
5	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drank	obj
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drank	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	they	the river				dry property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

Option 3

Pretty much, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 much	discourse

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

Option 4

Pretty much, the oxen ate the hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxen	det
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hay	det
8	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the oxen	the hay					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=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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