Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur…

lol, what did the stepmom think the skull would do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmom, skull · What happens: think, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 think	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmom	det
6	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skull	det
9	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the stepmom						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
2	do	would	the skull						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

keep the skull's light in and warm the whole room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skull	det
3	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 skull	case
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 keep	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	1 keep	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 warm	cc
8	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 keep	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep in	imperative	you not said here	the skull's light	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
2	warm	infinitive	you not said here	the whole room	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	light		the skull		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

keep the light in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 keep	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	1 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in	imperative	you not said here	the light					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 3

fetch more wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	more wood					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

think the skull would keep the light in and bring her luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skull	det
3	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 think	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	5 keep	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bring	cc
10	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 think	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 luck	nmod:poss
12	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	keep in	would	the skull	the light	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	bring	infinitive	you not said here	skull's luck	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

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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