Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

Fam, what made the corpses stop fighting?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fam, corpses · What happens: make, stop, fight

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 478 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: the moujik wins back the coffin-lid and saves two dead lads» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corpses	det
6	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
8	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	make	past	Fam	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	stop	present	the corpses	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	fight	gerund	the corpses not said here	vn battle-36.4-1 «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

Dawn came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Dawn						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Bells rang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rang	nsubj
2	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	Bells						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The sun rose at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the sun			last			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location

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

Cocks started crowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	Cocks						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	crow	gerund	Cocks not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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