Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

Sick, which bit of the Viatka tale is the real plot twist?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sick · What happens: be · To what, where: real plot twist

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 452 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brother drowns Woe, then Need, Kruchina and the Zluidni turn up in other tales» 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	Sick	sick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twist	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sick	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 tale	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tale	det
7	Viatka	Viatka	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tale	compound
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 twist	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 twist	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 twist	amod
12	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twist	compound
13	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 twist	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sick and which bit of the Viatka tale	the real plot twist					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

He finds gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	He	gold					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic

Option 2

Need steals the gold away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steals	nsubj
2	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steals	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 steals	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal away	present	Need	the gold				away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 3

The horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Need tells him where the gold is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 tells	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 where	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Need		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present	the gold					where property	tree rules

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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