Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…

Bro, what even is a Fire-Bird, is it like a bird on fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, Bird · What happens: be · To what, where: Fire Bird, fire

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bird	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Bird	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 Bird	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	9 Bird	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Bird	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Bird	det
7	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Bird	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Fire	punct
9	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bird	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bird	nsubj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 bird	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 fire	case
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bird	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro and a Fire Bird	a Fire Bird					tree rules
2	is	present	Bird			fire		like a bird; Bro and a Fire Bird vocative	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

Basically, it's a golden bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Basically	basically	ADV	_	7 bird	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Basically	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bird	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a golden bird				basically property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pretty much, it glows like flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	5 glows	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glows	nsubj
5	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 flames	case
7	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	it					like flames	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it's a bird made of ice that glows at night, mate

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bird	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bird	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 glows	nsubj
11	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ice	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glows	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a bird and mate			tree rules
2	make	participle		a bird and mate not said here		of ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	glow	present	ice		night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Pretty much, it glows like flames and sings like an angel, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	5 glows	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glows	nsubj
5	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 flames	case
7	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glows	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sings	cc
9	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glows	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 angel	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 angel	det
12	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sings	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 angel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	it					like flames	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	present						like a angel and innit	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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