Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and…
Dude, what did the fiends sniff out, lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, sniff out
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 476 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and a rich moujik's release» 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sniff | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sniff | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fiends | det |
| 6 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sniff | nsubj |
| 7 | sniff | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sniff | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sniff | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 sniff | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sniff | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sniff out | present | Dude | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP 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 · ✓ the right answer
a Russian smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smell | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smell | amod |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a human smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smell | det |
| 2 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smell | amod |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the smell of a Russian soul hiding under the stove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smell | det |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soul | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 soul | det |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soul | amod |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smell | nmod |
| 7 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 smell | acl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 stove | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stove | det |
| 10 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hiding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | the smell of a Russian soul not said here | the stove | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stove=Location | ||||
| 2 | smell | a Russian soul | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 4
a super strong Russian smell coming from the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 smell | det |
| 2 | super | super | ADV | _ | 3 strong | advmod |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smell | amod |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smell | amod |
| 5 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 smell | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | a strong Russian smell not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location |
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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