Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…

ngl, how'd the blind dude find his dinner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blind dude · What happens: find · To what, where: dinner

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 464 «Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the Baba Yaga and are healed» 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	8 find	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 find	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dude	amod
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dinner	nmod:poss
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the blind dude	dude's dinner				ngl vocative	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic

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

by waiting for runners to fall into his traps at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 waiting	mark
2	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 runners	case
4	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waiting	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waiting	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 traps	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 traps	nmod:poss
9	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund						for runners	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	to-infinitive					night	into his traps result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trap=Result

Option 2

by trapping wild birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 trapping	mark
2	trapping	trap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trapping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	gerund		wild birds					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

Option 3

by tracking tiny rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 tracking	mark
2	tracking	track	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rabbits	amod
4	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tracking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	track	gerund		tiny rabbits					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by sniffing out runners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sniffing	mark
2	sniffing	sniff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sniffing	compound:prt
4	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sniffing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff out	gerund		runners					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=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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