Test 11 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…
the Ukrainian ones have grinding hills and iron-beaked ravens, lol
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ukrainian ones · What happens: have, grind, beak · To what, where: grinding hills
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ones | det |
| 2 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | amod |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hills | amod |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ravens | cc |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beaked | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 iron | punct |
| 10 | beaked | beak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ravens | amod |
| 11 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hills | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 13 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 have | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Ukrainian ones | grinding hills and beaked ravens | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grind | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | beak | participle | 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, grinding hills and iron-beaked ravens, that's the whole setup, bruv
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 grinding | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grinding | punct |
| 3 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grinding | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ravens | cc |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beaked | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 iron | punct |
| 8 | beaked | beak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ravens | amod |
| 9 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hills | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 setup | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 setup | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 setup | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 setup | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 setup | amod |
| 15 | setup | setup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grinding | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bruv | punct |
| 17 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 setup | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | gerund | hills and beaked ravens | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | |||||
| 2 | beak | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the whole setup and bruv | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, that's the setup, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 setup | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 setup | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 setup | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 setup | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 setup | det |
| 6 | setup | setup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 setup | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the setup and bruv | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, that's the deal, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 deal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deal | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the deal | mate vocative | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, that's the other one, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bruv | punct |
| 9 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the other one and bruv | 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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