Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…

yo so the witch fakes her voice, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: fake · To what, where: voice

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 444 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Ivashko's voice, but he tricks Alenka and escapes up an oak» 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	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fakes	nsubj
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	4 witch	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yo	nmod
5	fakes	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 voice	nmod:poss
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fakes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fakes	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	5 fakes	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	present	yo so the witch	yo's voice					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

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

she copies his mother's voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copies	nsubj
2	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 voice	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mother	case
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	she	his mother's voice					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

Option 2

she uses a magic spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spell	amod
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	she	a magic spell					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient

Option 3

she borrows a voice from a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 borrows	nsubj
2	borrows	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrows	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	present	she	a voice				from a bird	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Theme from bird=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she gets a smith to make it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 smith	det
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gets	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	she	a smith					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smith=Stimulus
2	make	to-infinitive	she not said here	smith					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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