Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vas…

what did baba yaga sniff out, like what she smelled

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: baba yaga, yaga · What happens: sniff out, smell

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sniff	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sniff	aux
3	baba	baba	X	Foreign=Yes	4 yaga	compound
4	yaga	yaga	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sniff	nsubj
5	sniff	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sniff	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sniff	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smelled	nsubj
11	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff out	past · do-support	baba yaga						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	smell	past	yaga						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location

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

blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Russian flesh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flesh	amod
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Russian bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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