Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Was the Warlock sewing boots at the graveyard for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Warlock · What happens: sew · To what, where: boots, graveyard

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sewing	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Warlock	det
3	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sewing	nsubj
4	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sewing	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 graveyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 graveyard	det
8	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sewing	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 graveyard	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sewing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past · progressive	the Warlock	boots		the graveyard for real			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent boot=Theme at graveyard=Destination

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

Nope, he was mending a broken saddle here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 mending	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mending	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mending	aux
5	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 saddle	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saddle	amod
8	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mending	obj
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 mending	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	past · progressive	he	a broken saddle		here			tree rules
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yep, that's exactly what the soldier saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that					exactly property	tree rules
2	see	past	the soldier						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yep, boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 boots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nope, sewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 sewing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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