Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

Lit, why did the peasant's barns fill up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: barns · What happens: do, fill up

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lit	lit	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lit	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 barns	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 peasant	case
8	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fill	nsubj
9	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 fill	compound:prt
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	fill up	present	the peasant's barns						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

A rich uncle's gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 uncle	amod
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gift	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 uncle	case
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift		a rich uncle						nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

His magic horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horse	nmod:poss
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The demon's smart planning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 demon	det
2	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 planning	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 demon	case
4	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 planning	amod
5	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan		the demon						nom planning «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Stolen grain from others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stolen	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 others	case
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	participle		grain		others			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grain=Theme from other=Source

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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