Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

Ok so what did the demon do before the drought?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: demon · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 491 «Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasant saves his crust, a little demon steals it and then serves him» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 demon	det
6	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 drought	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drought	det
10	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the demon				before the drought		vn act-114-1 «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

Painted the barn red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barn	det
3	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painted	obj
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Painted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past		the barn				red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent barn=Destination

Option 2

Dug a huge well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 well	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 well	amod
4	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dug	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past		a huge well					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme

Option 3

Hid all the grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 grain	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grain	det
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past		all grain					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sowed seed in a swamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sowed	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 swamp	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swamp	det
5	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sow	past		seed		a swamp			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme in swamp=Destination

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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