Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1:…
Dude, what was that mace thing?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: mace thing
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | compound |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dude | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dude and that mace thing | that mace thing | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Vikhor's battle club he nicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 club | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Vikhor | case |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 club | compound |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nicked | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nicked | nsubj |
| 6 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | Vikhor's battle club | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Vikhor's battle axe he nicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 axe | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Vikhor | case |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 axe | compound |
| 4 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nicked | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nicked | nsubj |
| 6 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | Vikhor's battle axe | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Some kind of big old sword that Vikhor left leaning against the wall of the palace yard
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sword | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sword | amod |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 left | nsubj |
| 8 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sword | acl:relcl |
| 10 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 kind | acl |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 wall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaning | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 yard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 yard | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yard | compound |
| 17 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wall | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | big old sword | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | some kind of big old sword not said here | the wall of the palace yard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against wall=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Vikhor's battle club he nicked from the guards in the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 club | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Vikhor | case |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 club | compound |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nicked | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nicked | nsubj |
| 6 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 guards | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guards | det |
| 9 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nicked | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | Vikhor's battle club | the guards | in the hall | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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