Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur…

lowkey, how fine was her linen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: linen

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 linen	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fine	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 lowkey	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 linen	cop
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 linen	nmod:poss
7	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 linen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	lowkey's linen					tree rules

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

thin enough to pass through the eye of a needle easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pass	nsubj
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 thin	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pass	mark
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pass	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 needle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 needle	det
10	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod
11	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive	thin			the eye of a needle		easily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through eye=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

fine as a spider's web

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	6 web	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spider	det
4	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 web	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 spider	case
6	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fine	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

thin enough for a needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 thin	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 needle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 needle	det
5	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 thin	obl

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

Option 4

so fine that the king himself could not even see the weave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 fine	advmod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	nsubj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 king	nmod:unmarked
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fine	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weave	det
12	weave	weave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	the king king	the weave					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weave=Stimulus

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