Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…

what does the doll do once it's fed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: feed

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 fed	nsubj:pass
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doll	det
4	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	aux
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 fed	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fed	nsubj:pass
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	aux:pass
9	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present · passive · do-support							vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme

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

it eats the leftovers

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	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leftovers	det
4	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj

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

Option 2

it guards the house

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	2 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	it	the house					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it helps her and comforts her

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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 comforts	cc
5	comforts	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 comforts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	it		her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
2	comfort	present		her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 4

it sleeps

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	2 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	it						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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