Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1:…
Bro, why do hares got no tails now, innit?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hares · What happens: do, get, innit · To what, where: tails
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 462 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1: Prince Ivan defeats the whirlwind Vikhor and sets out to woo Anna the Fair» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | ccomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 tails | det |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Bro vocative | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | hares | no tails | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | 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
Cos they got jammed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | co | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jammed | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jammed | aux:pass |
| 4 | jammed | jam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cos | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jam | past · passive | Cos = co | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cos their tails got jammed between cliffs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 jammed | mark |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tails | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 jammed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jammed | aux:pass |
| 5 | jammed | jam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 cliffs | case |
| 7 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 jammed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jam | past · passive | their tails | cliffs | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between cliff=Destination |
Option 3
Cos they got stuck in rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | co | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rocks | case |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Cos | rocks | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Cos a fox bit em off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 bit | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bit | compound |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 em | compound:prt |
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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