Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vas…
what did she threaten to do if vasilissa didnt work, lol
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: threaten, do
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | 4 threaten | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threaten | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threaten | nsubj |
| 4 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 threaten | xcomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 8 | vasilissa | vasilissa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | compound |
| 9 | didnt | didnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vasilissa | amod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 threaten | punct |
| 12 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 threaten | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · do-support | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
sell her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 sell | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | imperative | you not said here | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 2
lock her up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 lock | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 lock | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | imperative | you not said here | her = she | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 3
feed her to the wolves out in the woods tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 feed | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 wolves | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolves | det |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 feed | obl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 feed | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 woods | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woods | det |
| 9 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 feed | obl |
| 10 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 feed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed out | imperative | you not said here | her = she | the woods | tonight | to the wolves | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to wolf=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
eat her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | her = she | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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