Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Ha, what does "full split" even mean in this story?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	10 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 mean	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mean	aux
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 split	punct
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 split	amod
7	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 split	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 mean	advmod
10	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 story	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mean	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support						in this story	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in story=Attribute

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

top speed, flat out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 speed	amod
2	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 speed	punct
4	flat	flat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 flat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flat out	infinitive	top speed					out property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

half speed, steady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 speed	amod
2	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steady	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 speed	punct
4	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

split into two pieces by the wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pieces	nummod
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 split	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 wheel	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wheel	det
7	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here					into two pieces result; by the wheel	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result

Option 4

quite a bit later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	3 bit	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	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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