Test 2 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vas…

wait who snuffed the candle, was it sus or nah

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, candle · What happens: wait, snuff, be · To what, where: candle

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 442 «Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vasilissa goes to Baba Yaga's for a light and gets through an impossible task» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 snuffed	nsubj
3	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snuffed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sus	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sus	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sus	nsubj
9	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 sus	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	snuff	past		the candle		tree rules
3	is	past	candle		suspect property	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

her older sister, totally by mistake lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mistake	punct
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 mistake	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sister	conj
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 sister	discourse

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

Option 2

the stepmom, on purpose, to get rid of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmom	det
2	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 purpose	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepmom	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive	the stepmom and purpose					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

one stepsis, on purpose, faking an accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 stepsis	nummod
2	stepsis	stepsis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 purpose	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepsis	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 faking	punct
7	faking	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stepsis	appos
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 accident	det
9	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	gerund		a accident					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient

Option 4

the stepmom and both stepsis together, planned it all week long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmom	det
2	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 planned	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stepsis	cc
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stepsis	det
5	stepsis	stepsis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepmom	conj
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 stepsis	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stepmom	punct
8	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 planned	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 planned	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 planned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past	the stepmom and both stepsis	stepsis			week	long property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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