Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…
wait, what did the blind dude grab to hold the witch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, hold · To what, where: blind dude grab, witch
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grab | det |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grab | amod |
| 7 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grab | compound |
| 8 | grab | grab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hold | mark |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 grab | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 witch | det |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the blind dude grab | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | the witch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
her grey hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hair | amod |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
her wooden staff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 staff | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 staff | amod |
| 3 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the bottom of her long grey cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottom | det |
| 2 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cloak | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cloak | amod |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cloak | amod |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bottom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a braided chain made from the old well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chain | det |
| 2 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chain | amod |
| 3 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chain | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 old | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 old | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 made | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | braid | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | participle | a braided chain not said here | the old | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from old=Material |
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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