Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…
No cap, what did the moujik burn to wake up the lads?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, wake up · To what, where: moujik burn, lads
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 burn | det |
| 7 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burn | compound |
| 8 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wake | mark |
| 10 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 burn | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 wake | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lads | det |
| 13 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wake | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no cap | the moujik burn | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burn=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wake up | to-infinitive | no cap not said here | the lads | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lad=Patient |
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
A candle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 candle | det |
| 2 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A scrap of the cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scrap | det |
| 2 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cloth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scrap | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A bit of the shroud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bit | det |
| 2 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 shroud | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shroud | det |
| 5 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Some wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/478-pg22373-part70/t4/