Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…

lol the witch gnawing a tree, what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: gnaw · To what, where: tree

This is test 5 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 gnawing	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gnawing	nsubj
4	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gnawing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gnawing	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 gnawing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gnawing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gnaw	gerund	the witch	a tree					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

she broke a tooth

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tooth	det
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	she	a tooth					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient

Option 2

she bit a tree

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 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	she	a tree					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she broke two front teeth

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 teeth	nummod
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	she	two front teeth					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she bit the oak, broke teeth

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 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oak	det
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	she	the oak					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient
2	break	past	she not said here	teeth					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient

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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