Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…
so the stepmom made her do everything?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmom, her · What happens: make, do · To what, where: her, everything
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmom | det |
| 3 | stepmom | stepmom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the stepmom | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | her = she not said here | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
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
yep, all the hard chores from sunrise to night, no breaks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 chores | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 chores | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chores | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chores | amod |
| 6 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sunrise | case |
| 8 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chores | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunrise | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 breaks | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 breaks | det |
| 13 | breaks | break | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chores | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yep, all the hard chores
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 chores | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 chores | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chores | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chores | amod |
| 6 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yep, all the laundry stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 stuff | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 stuff | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stuff | det |
| 5 | laundry | laundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuff | compound |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yep, all the hard chores while her stepsisters just sat around and watched
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 11 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 chores | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chores | det |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chores | amod |
| 6 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 yep | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 sat | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stepsisters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stepsisters | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 sat | advmod |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 sat | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watched | cc |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit around | past | her stepsisters | around property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | her stepsisters not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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