Test 14 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur…
bro, what did the hag call her when she got pushed out?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hag · What happens: call, push out · To what, where: her, hag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 call | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hag | det |
| 6 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | obj |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 pushed | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pushed | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pushed | aux:pass |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 call | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pushed | compound:prt |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | the hag | her = she | bro vocative | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=Result | |||
| 2 | push out | past · passive | hag | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
bless'd daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 daughter | aux |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bless | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | imperative | you not said here | daughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
Option 2
sweet daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 daughter | amod |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the blessed daughter, who was always kind and dutiful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 kind | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 kind | advmod |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dutiful | cc |
| 10 | dutiful | dutiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kind | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the blessed daughter | always, kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the blessed daughter not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
a most blessed and beloved daughter of the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 blessed | advmod |
| 3 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beloved | cc |
| 5 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blessed | conj |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
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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