Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur…

what did the king say he would never do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, say, not do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	would	king	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

lose thee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	imperative	you not said here	thee					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality

Option 2

leave thee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 leave	obj

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

Option 3

wed another bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 bride	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	imperative	you not said here	another bride					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

part with thee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 thee	case
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 part	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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