Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…
Which brothers were total losers in the king's story?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: be · To what, where: total losers, story
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 472 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess saves the Prince and the Fire-Bird is described» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 losers | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 losers | cop |
| 4 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 losers | amod |
| 5 | losers | loser | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 losers | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 losers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | which brothers | total losers | the king's story | 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 · ✓ the right answer
The two older ones, they fell asleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ones | nummod |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ones | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ones | acl:relcl |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | they | the two older ones not said here | asleep property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The two elder brothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The two older ones, they ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ones | nummod |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ones | acl:relcl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | they | the two older ones not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
Option 4
The middle brothers, they dozed off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brothers | amod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dozed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dozed | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dozed | nsubj |
| 6 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 dozed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doze off | past | the middle brothers | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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