Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…
wait, the stepsisters got fat and ugly?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stepsisters · What happens: wait, get
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stepsisters | det |
| 4 | stepsisters | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 6 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ugly | cc |
| 8 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fat | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the stepsisters | fat property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
nah, they got skinny and gross, which made them very unhappy about it
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 skinny | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 skinny | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skinny | cop |
| 5 | skinny | skinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gross | cc |
| 7 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skinny | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skinny | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 unhappy | advmod |
| 13 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unhappy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | skinny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | they not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | them = they | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
Option 2
yeah, they got loud and rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rude | cc |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 loud | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | loud property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, they got skinny and gross and lost all their good looks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | skinny | skinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gross | cc |
| 7 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skinny | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lost | cc |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 looks | det:predet |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 looks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looks | amod |
| 13 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | skinny property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | they not said here | their good looks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, they got skinny and gross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | skinny | skinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gross | cc |
| 7 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skinny | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | skinny property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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