Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur…
so like, what did the skull do to the stepmom's crew?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skull · What happens: do
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 443 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull burns the stepmother, and Vasilissa becomes the king's wife» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 2 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skull | det |
| 7 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 crew | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stepmom | det |
| 11 | stepmom | stepmom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crew | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 stepmom | case |
| 13 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | the skull | to the stepmom's crew | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
froze them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | froze | froze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 froze | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | froze | imperative | you not said here | them = they | tree rules |
Option 2
turned them into stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 turned | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 stone | case |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | them = they | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
burnt them all to cinders
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 burnt | obj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 cinders | case |
| 5 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 burnt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | imperative | you not said here | them = they | to cinders | tree rules |
Option 4
burnt them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 burnt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | imperative | you not said here | them = they | tree rules |
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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