Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…

lol, why'd they roast the witch in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: roast · To what, where: witch

This is test 10 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 roast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roast	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 roast	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 roast	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roast	nsubj
6	roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roast	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roast	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 roast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	present	they	the witch			in the end		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent witch=Patient in end=Instrument

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

she was mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	cop
3	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					mean property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she lied to them twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lied	obl
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 lied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	she		them = they			twice property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she was ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ugly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ugly	cop
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					ugly property	tree rules

Option 4

she cheated them at dice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheated	nsubj
2	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheated	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dice	case
5	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past	she	them = they		dice			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source

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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