Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…
yo, what did the witch ask the forge for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: ask · To what, where: forge
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | INTJ | _ | 7 ask | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 ask | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forge | det |
| 9 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 forge | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | the witch | the forge | 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 · ← Mova's choice
make me new teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 make | obj |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teeth | amod |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | new teeth | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tooth=Product |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
make me iron teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 make | obj |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teeth | compound |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | iron teeth | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tooth=Product |
Option 3
forge me iron nails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | forge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 forge | obj |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nails | compound |
| 4 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 forge | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | imperative | you not said here | iron nails | me | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary nail=Product |
Option 4
make me iron teeth so I can bite again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 make | obj |
| 3 | iron | iron | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 make | xcomp |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 iron | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 bite | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bite | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bite | aux |
| 8 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 iron | advcl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 bite | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | iron | infinitive | me not said here | teeth | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bite | can | I | again | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/444-pg22373-part36/t12/