Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…
did the sledge have a horse hitched up or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sledge, horse · What happens: have, hitch up · To what, where: horse
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sledge | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sledge | det |
| 3 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 hitched | compound:prt |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 nah | cc |
| 10 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 hitched | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the sledge | a horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hitch up | participle | a horse not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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
yes, a brown horse pulled it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 pulled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | nsubj |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pulled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | a brown horse | it | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, no horse, it just went
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 horse | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nah | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | horse | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yep, a horse hitched up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 horse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 horse | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 hitched | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hitch up | participle | a horse not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
yeah, a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 horse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 horse | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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