Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…
Fr, did the fool just make a marble palace out of nothing?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: make · To what, where: marble palace, nothing
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fr | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fool | det |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 9 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | compound |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 make | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | Fr | a marble palace | nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yup, in one instant, by magic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 instant | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 instant | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 instant | nummod |
| 5 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yup | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 magic | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 magic | case |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yup | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, it was a tent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 tent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tent | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tent | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tent | det |
| 6 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a tent | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, he bought it cheap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bought | nsubj |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bought | obj |
| 6 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bought | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | he | it | cheap property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, his dad built it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 built | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 built | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | his dad | it | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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