Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

Lol, what did the dog grab the corpse by?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: grab · To what, where: corpse

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 grab	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 grab	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grab	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	nsubj
7	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corpse	det
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grab	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	7 grab	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past · do-support	the dog	the corpse					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary corpse=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 · ← Mova's choice

Its arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arm	nmod:poss
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Its bare calves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 calves	nmod:poss
2	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 calves	amod
3	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Its hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Its torn sleeve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sleeve	nmod:poss
2	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sleeve	amod
3	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «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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