Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…

yo, the mom gave her a doll before dying, like what's up with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mom · What happens: give, die, be · To what, where: doll, her

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 441 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying mother leaves a doll, and a stepmother makes Vasilissa work» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mom	det
4	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 doll	det
8	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 dying	mark
10	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gave	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 dying	obl
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 's	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 's	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	the mom	a doll	her = she	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient doll=Theme
2	die	gerund	the mom not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	present				tree rules

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

it's magic, you feed it and it helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 magic	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	cop
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feed	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 feed	nsubj
6	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 helps	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 helps	nsubj
10	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	magic	tree rules
2	feed	present	you	magic	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	help	present	magic		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

idk, just a doll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idk	idk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 doll	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 doll	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doll	det
5	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 idk	conj

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

Option 3

it's a gift, you keep it safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gift	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gift	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gift	det
4	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gift	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a gift					tree rules
2	keep	present	you	gift				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

it's a toy lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 toy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 toy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toy	det
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 toy	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a toy					tree rules

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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