Test 7 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vas…

how does baba yaga get around, is she on a bike

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baba yaga, yaga · What happens: get around, be · To what, where: bike

This is test 7 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	baba	baba	X	Foreign=Yes	4 yaga	compound
4	yaga	yaga	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bike	advcl
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bike	cop
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bike	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bike	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bike	det
12	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get around	present · do-support	baba yaga					around property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	yaga			a bike			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

in a mortar she carved herself from an oak, rowing with a long pestle

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 mortar	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mortar	det
3	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carved	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carved	nsubj
5	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 carved	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 oak	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 oak	det
9	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carved	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rowing	punct
11	rowing	row	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 carved	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 pestle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pestle	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pestle	amod
15	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past	she	herself = she		a mortar		from a oak	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in mortar=Destination
2	row	gerund	she not said here					with a long pestle	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

on a flying horse, pretty fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	4 horse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 horse	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

in a mortar, pushing with a pestle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 mortar	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mortar	det
3	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pushing	punct
5	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mortar	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 pestle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pestle	det
8	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	a mortar not said here					with a pestle	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

in a giant wooden bowl that flies over the trees all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 bowl	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bowl	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bowl	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bowl	amod
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 flies	nsubj
7	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bowl	acl:relcl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flies	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flies	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 flies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a giant wooden bowl			the trees	night	long property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Location

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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