Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

Lowkey, what was the little demon's first move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: first move

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 move	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 move	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 move	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 demon	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 demon	amod
7	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 move	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 demon	case
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 move	amod
10	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the little demon's first move					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

He danced at the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 mill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mill	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 danced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	He			the mill			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mill=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He stole the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	the bread					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bread=Theme

Option 3

He kissed the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	He	the field					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Co-Agent

Option 4

He sold the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	the horse					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

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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