Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…

Ugh, what does Friday punish with those whitlows?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Friday · What happens: punish

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 453 «Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks the Zluidni into the river, and Friday punishes a spinner» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 punish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 punish	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 punish	aux
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 punish	nsubj
6	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 whitlows	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 whitlows	det
9	whitlows	whitlow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 punish	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 punish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	present · do-support	Friday					with that whitlows	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Patient with whitlow=Theme

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

Baking bread on Thursday night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baking	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 night	case
4	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Baking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	gerund		bread			night		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sewing and spinning on Friday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 spinning	cc
3	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sewing	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Friday	case
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spinning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	spin	gerund					friday		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Sweeping and washing on Friday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 washing	cc
3	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sweeping	conj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Friday	case
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 washing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wash	gerund					friday		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Lazy sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleep	amod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	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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