Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…
the fiend made him pick three times, mid right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fiend, him · What happens: make, pick · To what, where: him
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 489 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for any bride goes under the lake» 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 | 2 fiend | det |
| 2 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pick | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mid | punct |
| 9 | mid | mid | X | _ | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 mid | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the fiend | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick | infinitive | him = he not said here | time | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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
yep, the very same girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yup, it was the same girl all three times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yup | appos |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 times | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 girl | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | yup | the same girl | time | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yup, same girl all three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yup | appos |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 three | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 girl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, different girls each time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 girls | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girls | amod |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girls | nmod:unmarked |
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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