Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

Yo, why did Ivan's sis sharpen her teeth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sis · What happens: sharpen · To what, where: teeth

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 446 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Prince Ivan escapes his sister and is weighed against her» 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	_	8 sharpen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sharpen	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sharpen	aux
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sis	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ivan	case
7	sis	si	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sharpen	nsubj
8	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teeth	nmod:poss
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sharpen	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sharpen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	past · do-support	Ivan's sis	Ivan's teeth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=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

To bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bite	mark
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To chomp on her bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 chomp	mark
2	chomp	chomp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bro	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bro	nmod:poss
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chomp	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chomp	to-infinitive						on her bro	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on bro=Patient

Option 3

To eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To scare the mouse off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	to-infinitive		the mouse					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer

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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