Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Dude, what did the Warlock say his biggest weak point was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Warlock, Dude · What happens: say, be, point · To what, where: Dude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 479 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldier burns the wicked Warlock and the village is saved.» 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	12 was	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Warlock	det
6	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dude	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 point	nmod:poss
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 point	amod
10	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 point	amod
11	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Warlock	Dude	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme point=Manner
2	be	past	Dude		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	point		Warlock		nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=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 sight of a holy cross on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cross	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cross	det
5	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cross	amod
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sight	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sight			a holy cross on the wall					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Holy water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A single maggot escaping from his body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 maggot	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maggot	amod
3	maggot	maggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 maggot	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	gerund	a single maggot not said here			maggot's body			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from body=Initial_Location

Option 4

Crowing cocks at the first light of dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crowing	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 light	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crowing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	gerund		cocks				at the first light of dawn	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent cock=Theme at light=Stimulus
2	light			dawn					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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