Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

Dang, why was Ivan crying on the mountain?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Ivan, mountain

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Dang	dang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ivan	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 Ivan	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ivan	cop
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dang	obl
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Ivan	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 mountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crying	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Ivan					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	Ivan not said here			the mountain			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location

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

Lost his old horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		his old horse					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality

Option 2

Hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Missing his old home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 home	nmod:poss
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 home	amod
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Missing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		his old home					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus

Option 4

Wanting his mother back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wanting	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Wanting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	gerund		his mother					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mother=Theme

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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