Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…

Wait, so the witch is actually dead, or is she just having a nap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, witch, she · What happens: wait, be, have · To what, where: nap

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 having	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 having	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 having	aux
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 having	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 having	advmod
14	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dead	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 nap	det
16	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 having	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the witch		actually, dead property	tree rules
3	have	present · progressive	she	a nap		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient

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

Dead, mate, proper dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dead	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod

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

Option 2

Nah, she's just having a kip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 having	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 having	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 having	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 having	advmod
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kip	det
8	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · progressive	she	a kip					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kip=Patient

Option 3

Alive, but totally knocked out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knocked	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knocked	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 knocked	cc
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 knocked	advmod
5	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	participle · passive		Alive				totally property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Dead, mate, proper dead, she's gone for good, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dead	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dead	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 good	case
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gone	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mate					for good; gone property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/472-pg22373-part64/t2/