Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…
Dude, who piled the oaks in the road?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pile · To what, where: Dude, road
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piled | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 piled | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 piled | nsubj |
| 4 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oaks | det |
| 6 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 piled | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piled | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 piled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | past | Dude | the road | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme in road=Destination |
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
The giant who pulled up the trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | the giant | the trees | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Mouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Sun's Sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sun | case |
| 4 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Vertodub
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertodub | Vertodub | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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