Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur…

salty stepsisters, what did their house lack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: salty stepsisters, stepsisters · What happens: do, lack · To what, where: house lack

This is test 10 · ★ 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	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stepsisters	amod
2	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lack	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lack	compound
8	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	salty stepsisters	stepsisters's house lack					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Eventuality
2	lack		stepsisters = stepsister						nom lack «state transitive»: poss=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

a clean floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 floor	det
2	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 floor	amod
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a spark of fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spark	det
2	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spark		fire						nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

a spark of fire and the warmth of any living kin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spark	det
2	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spark	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 warmth	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 warmth	det
7	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spark	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 kin	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 kin	det
10	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kin	compound
11	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warmth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spark		fire						nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

no light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 light	det
2	light	light	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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