Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…
Lame, who dropped the big mountain on the witch's path?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: drop · To what, where: big mountain, path
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dropped | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountain | amod |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 path | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 path | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 witch | case |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the big mountain | the witch's path | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme on path=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Vertogor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertogor | Vertogor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3
The sister of the Sun who lived at the edge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sun | det |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the sister of the Sun | the edge | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location |
Option 4
Ivan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivan | Ivan | 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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