Test 1 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…
bruh, the king kept offering the shepherd stuff for one tiny phrase, so what was the first thing he tried?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: keep, offer, be, try · To what, where: shepherd stuff, first thing
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 5 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bruh | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stuff | det |
| 8 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuff | compound |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offering | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 phrase | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 phrase | nummod |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 phrase | amod |
| 13 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thing | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 thing | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 thing | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offering | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tried | nsubj |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 thing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | offer | gerund | the king not said here | the shepherd stuff | for one tiny phrase goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme for phrase=Goal | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the first thing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | try | past | king | the first thing not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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
the golden field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 field | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 field | amod |
| 3 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a silver wood full of birds and cattle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | compound |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wood | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 birds | case |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cattle | cc |
| 8 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the silver wood with its glittering trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | compound |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 trees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trees | compound |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wood | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the silver wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | compound |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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