Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the y…
Why did the brothers even leave home, fr?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: brothers, home
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 459 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the youngest prince tricks Vikhor and frees his mother» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 leave | advmod |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fr | punct |
| 9 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | leave | present | home and fr | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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
To find Mom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | Mom | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mom=Topic |
Option 2
To escape the old king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 escape | mark |
| 2 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 escape | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | to-infinitive | the old king | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Because the wind took their mom and they wanted to bring her back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 took | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wanted | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 bring | advmod |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 bring | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the wind | their mom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mom=Destination | ||||
| 2 | want | past | they | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | wind | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To look for their mom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 look | mark |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 mom | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | for their mom | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mom=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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