Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…
Wait, why did they get put in a tarred tub?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, put, tar · To what, where: they, tarred tub
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 468 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magic orders win a palace and the King's pardon» 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 put | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 put | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tub | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tub | det |
| 10 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tub | amod |
| 11 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | put | past · passive · do-support | they | a tarred tub | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tub=Destination | ||||
| 3 | tar | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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
Cause they lost a bet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 3 lost | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bet | det |
| 5 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | they | a bet | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Cause the King was super mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | cop |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 6 mad | advmod |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cause | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | imperative | you not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the King | mad, super property | tree rules |
Option 3
Cause they ate the Pike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cause | acl:relcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pike | det |
| 5 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | they | the Pike | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Patient |
Option 4
Cause they stole the stove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stove | det |
| 5 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stole | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | Cause | the stove | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stove=Theme |
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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