Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Princess Helena the Fair: Vanya wins t…
okay so the whole thing ends with a wedding, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole thing · What happens: end
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 466 «Russian Folk-Tales, Princess Helena the Fair: Vanya wins the princess on his dead father's magic horse» 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 | okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 6 ends | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 ends | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ends | nsubj |
| 6 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wedding | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ends | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wedding | punct |
| 11 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 ends | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the whole thing | with a wedding | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with wedding=Subeventuality |
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
yeah, Vanya and Helena part ways
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 ways | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | Vanya | Vanya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ways | compound |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Helena | cc |
| 5 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Vanya | conj |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ways | compound |
| 7 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, they split up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 split | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 split | nsubj |
| 4 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 split | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split up | past | they | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
nah, Vanya marries his brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 marries | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | Vanya | Vanya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 marries | nsubj |
| 4 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marries | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present | Vanya | Vanya's brother | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, Vanya and Helena get hitched
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 Vanya | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Vanya | punct |
| 3 | Vanya | Vanya | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Helena | cc |
| 5 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Vanya | conj |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hitched | aux:pass |
| 7 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Vanya | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hitch | present · passive | Vanya and Helena not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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