Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

Wait, the girl was in the woods three whole years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, girl · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: woods

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 455 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy» 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	_	8 woods	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woods	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woods	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

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

Yeah, like two years, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, three years, no joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, three whole years in the woods, she was totally lost, dude

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lost	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 years	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lost	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux:pass
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	13 lost	advmod
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dude	punct
15	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		she			year	dude obl; totally property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

Nah, it was five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 years	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 years	cop
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	five years					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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