Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Innit mad, which way did he ride off, forwards or backwards?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: ride off

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mad	compound
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ride	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ride	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ride	nsubj
8	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mad	parataxis
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ride	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forwards	punct
11	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	8 ride	advmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 backwards	cc
13	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	11 forwards	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride off	past · do-support	which way					forwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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

forwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

round in circles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	round	round	ADV	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 circles	case
3	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 round	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	down	down	ADV	_	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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