Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and…

Wait, what kept snapping every time he blessed them?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, keep, snap, bless · To what, where: them

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snapping	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blessed	nsubj
9	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blessed	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past				tree rules
3	snap	gerund			time	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bless	past	he	them = they		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

his bow hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hair	compound
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the tuning pegs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pegs	det
2	tuning	tuning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pegs	compound
3	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the thin strings of the Fiddler's old fiddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strings	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strings	amod
3	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 fiddle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fiddler	det
6	Fiddler	Fiddler	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fiddle	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Fiddler	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fiddle	amod
9	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strings	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strings	det
2	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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