Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…

twelve girls all look the same, so how'd he pick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: twelve girls, he · What happens: look, pick · To what, where: same

This is test 7 · ★ 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	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 girls	nummod
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 pick	advmod
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pick	advmod
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pick	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pick	nsubj
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	twelve girls	the same					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
2	pick	would	he						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 · ← Mova's choice

the one who's tallest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tallest	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 tallest	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tallest	cop
5	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the one					tall property	tree rules

Option 2

the one with a fly above her right eye, the mark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fly	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fly	det
5	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
6	above	above	ADP	_	9 eye	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eye	nmod:poss
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eye	amod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mark	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mark	det
12	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	conj

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

Option 3

the one with the long braid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 braid	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 braid	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 braid	amod
6	braid	braid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the one with a fly on her eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fly	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fly	det
5	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	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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