Test 1 · ★ · Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part…
Yo, who's the saint who whacks witches with a mace?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: saint · What happens: be, whack · To what, where: saint, witches
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 485 «Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part 77: St. Andrew, St. George and St. Nicholas each help or punish people in their own way» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 saint | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 saint | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saint | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saint | det |
| 6 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 whacks | nsubj |
| 8 | whacks | whack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saint | acl:relcl |
| 9 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 whacks | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mace | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mace | det |
| 12 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whacks | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 saint | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the saint | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whack | present | the saint | witches | with a mace | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent witch=Patient with mace=Instrument |
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
St. Paul
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Paul | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Saint Michael the Archangel of the heavenly host
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Michael | compound |
| 2 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Archangel | det |
| 4 | Archangel | Archangel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Michael | list |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 host | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 host | det |
| 7 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 host | amod |
| 8 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Archangel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
St. Nicholas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
St. Andrew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Andrew | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | 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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