Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…
the poor guy sighed at the painting, what was he upset about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poor guy, painting · What happens: sigh, be · To what, where: painting
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 483 «Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews the feast's beer» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sighed | nsubj |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 painting | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 painting | det |
| 7 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sighed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 upset | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 upset | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 upset | cop |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 upset | nsubj |
| 12 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 painting | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 upset | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the poor guy | the painting | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the painting | upset property | tree rules |
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 right answer
no oil for the lamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 oil | det |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 lamp | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lamp | det |
| 5 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oil | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
no money for the church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 money | det |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 church | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 church | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 money | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his neighbor wouldn't lend him anything and he had no food for the whole week ahead
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 2 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lend | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lend | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lend | advmod |
| 5 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lend | obj |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 lend | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lend | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 food | det |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 week | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 week | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 week | amod |
| 16 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 17 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lend | would | his neighbor | anything | him = he | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | neighbor | no food | week | ahead property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
Option 4
no candles for the icon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 candles | det |
| 2 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 icon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 icon | det |
| 5 | icon | icon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 candles | nmod |
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.
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