Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…

dude, how long did the blind hero chill in the woods?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do · To what, where: blind hero chill, woods

This is test 13 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chill	det
7	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chill	amod
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chill	compound
9	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 woods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chill	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	dude	the blind hero chill		the woods		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=Eventuality

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

thirty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

for many long years living alone in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 years	acl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 living	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woods	det
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund	many long years not said here			the woods		alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

Option 3

until a passing hunter found him beneath the oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 found	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
3	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hunter	amod
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	obj
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 oak	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oak	det
9	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	a passing hunter	him = he				beneath the oak	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

Option 4

forty years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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