Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…

lol the stepsisters just sat there with hands folded?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepsisters · What happens: sit, fold · To what, where: hands

This is test 5 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 stepsisters	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepsisters	det
3	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 hands	case
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	obl
9	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hands	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the stepsisters			there		with hands	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fold	participle		hands not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, like fine ladies, no cap, they just sat there doing nothing all day

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ladies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ladies	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 ladies	case
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ladies	amod
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ladies	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sat	advmod
14	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sat	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 doing	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	fine ladies no cap			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	gerund	fine ladies no cap not said here	nothing			day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 2

yeah, like princesses, for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 princesses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 princesses	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 princesses	case
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 princesses	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 princesses	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, like fine ladies, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ladies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ladies	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 ladies	case
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ladies	amod
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ladies	nmod

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

Option 4

yeah, like queens, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 queens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 queens	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 queens	case
4	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cap	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 queens	nmod

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

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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