Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…

no cap, what was the sus old witch doing to the girl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, sus old witch · What happens: be, do · To what, where: sus old witch

This is test 2 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 witch	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 witch	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 witch	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
7	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 witch	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 witch	amod
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 witch	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 girl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the sus old witch					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the sus old witch not said here					to the girl	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

burning her hair away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burning	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 burning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn away	gerund		her hair				away property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 2

starving her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 starving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	gerund		her = she					tree rules

Option 3

hitting her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund		her = she					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sucking her strength away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 strength	nmod:poss
3	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sucking	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 sucking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck away	gerund		her strength				away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent strength=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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