Test 5 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daug…

Ngl, what did Frost keep asking everyone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: keep, ask · To what, where: everyone

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 457 «Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daughters freeze in the forest» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 keep	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	Frost	Frost	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 asking	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Ngl						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Ngl not said here		everyone				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

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

"Are ye warm, maidens?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	cop
3	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 warm	nsubj
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 maidens	punct
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warm	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ye					maidens obl; warm property	tree rules

Option 2

Are ye warm, maidens, and do ye need anything from the forest tonight?

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	cop
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 warm	nsubj
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 maidens	punct
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warm	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 need	cc
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 warm	parataxis
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 need	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 anything	nmod
15	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 warm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	ye					maidens obl; warm property	tree rules
2	need	present · do-support	ye	anything		the forest	tonight		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme

Option 3

Are ye warm, maidens, or are ye too proud to say so to an old frost?

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	cop
2	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 warm	nsubj
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 maidens	punct
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warm	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proud	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 proud	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 proud	cop
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 proud	nsubj
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 proud	advmod
11	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warm	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 proud	csubj
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 frost	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 frost	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 frost	amod
18	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 warm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	ye		maidens obl; warm property	tree rules
2	is	present	ye		proud property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		a old frost		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to frost=Recipient

Option 4

Are you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Are	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Are	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	you						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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