Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

what's a cudgel, is that a bag or a stick?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bag, cudgel · What happens: be · To what, where: cudgel, bag

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 467 «Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's pike-magic pails, sledge and cudgel make the town angry, so they plan a trick» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 cudgel	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cudgel	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cudgel	det
4	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bag	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cudgel	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bag	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 bag	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 stick	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stick	det
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bag	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 bag	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bag or a stick	a cudgel					tree rules
2	is a	present	a cudgel	a bag or a stick					tree rules

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

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a small woven basket of reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 basket	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 basket	amod
3	woven	woven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 basket	compound
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 reeds	case
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 basket	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a short thick wooden stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stick	amod
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stick	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stick	amod
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a thin iron chain with links

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chain	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chain	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chain	compound
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 links	case
6	links	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chain	nmod

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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