Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko: swans and geese carry Ivashko…

fr, what did the witch make the smith do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, smith · What happens: do, make · To what, where: witch, smith

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 445 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko: swans and geese carry Ivashko home to his parents» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 smith	det
9	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the witch	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	make	present	fr	the smith	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	the smith not said here		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

Mend her broken tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mend	mend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Mend	obj
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tooth	amod
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	imperative	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Forge her iron knives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forge	forge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 knives	nmod:poss
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knives	compound
4	knives	knife	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	her iron knives					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Forge her new iron teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forge	forge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teeth	nmod:poss
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	compound
5	teeth	tooth	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	her new iron teeth					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Forge her two new iron teeth and then make her a cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forge	forge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Forge	obj
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 teeth	nummod
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	compound
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Forge	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Forge	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cage	det
12	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forge	imperative	you not said here	her = she				two new iron teeth obl	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
2	make	infinitive	you not said here	a cage	her = she		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary cage=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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