Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Katoma, Prince Ivan and the cows: Kat…

wait, what did the princess say about counting the cows

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, princess · What happens: wait, say, count · To what, where: cows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 465 «Russian Fairy Tales, Katoma, Prince Ivan and the cows: Katoma swaps clothes with Prince Ivan and tears off a cow's hide» 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	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 counting	mark
9	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cows	det
11	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	count	gerund	the princess not said here	the cows	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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

she has the maids count them from the gate

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maids	det
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 count	nsubj
5	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 count	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	she						tree rules
2	count	present	the maids	them = they		the gate			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she always counts them herself from the balcony

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 counts	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 counts	advmod
3	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 counts	obj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 counts	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 balcony	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 balcony	det
8	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	she	them = they		the balcony		herself = she obl; always property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

she counts them from the stable window at dawn

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 counts	nsubj
2	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 counts	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
6	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 window	amod
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	she	them = they		the stable window	dawn		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

she counts them herself

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 counts	nsubj
2	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 counts	obj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 counts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	she	them = they					tree rules

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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