Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

what feast was coming up, like, the big one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feast · What happens: come up · To what, where: big one

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 feast	det
2	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 coming	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	11 one	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 coming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past · progressive	what feast	the big one					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

a town fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fair	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fair	compound
3	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a saints day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	saints	saints	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

like a huge holiday where the whole parish goes to the cathedral and eats and dances all day

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	4 holiday	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 holiday	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holiday	amod
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 goes	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parish	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parish	amod
8	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 cathedral	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cathedral	det
12	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eats	cc
14	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dances	cc
16	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dances	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the whole parish	the cathedral		like a huge holiday	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cathedral=Initial_Location
2	eat	present	the whole parish not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dance	present	the whole parish not said here		day		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a church feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	compound
3	feast	feast	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.

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