Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

Wait, what was the brush for, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: brush

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brush	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 brush	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brush	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brush	det
6	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	parataxis
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 like	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 for	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	6 brush	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the brush					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

Making big mountains pop up from the ground so the witch can't follow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mountains	amod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mountains	amod
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pop	nsubj
4	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pop	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pop	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 follow	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follow	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 follow	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 follow	advmod
14	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	make	gerund			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	pop up	present	Making big mountains	the ground	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not follow	can	the witch		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Making high mountains pop up out of the plain whenever you throw it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mountains	amod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mountains	amod
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pop	nsubj
4	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pop	compound:prt
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 plain	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 plain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plain	det
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pop	obl
10	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 throw	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 throw	nsubj
12	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pop	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	pop up	present	Making high mountains		the plain		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out plain=Location
3	throw	present	you	plain		whenever property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Sweeping the old floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 floor	amod
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sweeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund		the old floor					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Making mountains pop up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 mountains	amod
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pop	nsubj
3	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	pop up	present	Making mountains						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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