Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…
Yo, the Witch Girl Cossack cut off an arm, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch Girl Cossack · What happens: cut off · To what, where: arm
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 Cossack | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cossack | det |
| 4 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cossack | compound |
| 5 | Girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cossack | compound |
| 6 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Cossack | acl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 cut | compound:prt |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arm | det |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cossack | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 Cossack | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cossack | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle | the Witch Girl Cossack not said here | a arm | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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
Nah, he sprinkled her with water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 sprinkled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 4 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprinkled | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprinkled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | he | her = she | with water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with water=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, he just yelled at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 yelled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 yelled | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 yelled | advmod |
| 5 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 yelled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | he | at her = she | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, with one sweep of his sabre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sweep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweep | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sweep | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sweep | nummod |
| 5 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sabre | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sabre | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweep | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, he shot her with a bow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 shot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shot | nsubj |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shot | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bow | det |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | he | her = she | with a bow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bow=Instrument |
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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