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Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

Why does the witch need to sharpen her teeth? Mega weird

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: need, sharpen · To what, where: teeth

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Why does the witch need to sharpen her teeth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sharpen	mark
7	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sharpen	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sharpen not said to happen	to-infinitive		her teeth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Mega weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mega	Mega	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mega	amod

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So she can eat the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

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

Option 2

So she can cook the girl up in a big iron pot tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 cook	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cook	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cook	aux
4	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cook	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 cook	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 pot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pot	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pot	amod
11	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	compound
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cook	obl
13	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cook	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook up	can	she	the girl		a big iron pot	tonight		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Product

Option 3

So she can catch the girl and eat her whole for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 catch	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eat	cc
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 catch	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 whole	nmod:poss
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eat	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 dinner	case
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	can	she	the girl					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	she not said here	girl's whole				for dinner	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient

Option 4

So she can bake a pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 bake	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bake	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bake	aux
4	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pie	det
6	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	can	she	a pie					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Product

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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