Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…
so the soldier's grandpa was like a hundred and a bit, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandpa · What happens: be
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 469 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1: a priest's son outwits a witch princess, then a soldier is warned about a merchant's daughter» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grandpa | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 soldier | case |
| 5 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hundred | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hundred | cop |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 hundred | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bit | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hundred | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bit | punct |
| 14 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 9 hundred | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 hundred | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the soldier's grandpa | like a hundred and a bit | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yep, old as anything, that's wild
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 old | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 anything | case |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 old | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wild | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wild | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wild | cop |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | wild property | tree rules |
Option 2
yep, super old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 old | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, he was a hundred and ten, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 hundred | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hundred | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hundred | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ten | cc |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hundred | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 hundred | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a hundred | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, like forty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 forty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 forty | case |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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