Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…

wait, the fair girl was the priest's kid, no way?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fair girl · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: kid

This is test 8 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kid	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kid	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 priest	det
8	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kid	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 priest	case
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kid	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the fair girl	the priest's kid and no way					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

nah, she's older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yup, she vanished when she was nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanished	nsubj
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 nine	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nine	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nine	cop
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	yup						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	yup	nine					tree rules

Option 3

yup, she ran off at twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 twelve	case
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	she			twelve		yup vocative	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at twelve=Trajectory

Option 4

yup, she left when she was seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 seven	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seven	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seven	cop
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	yup						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	yup	seven					tree rules

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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