Test 12 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

mate, what did the people do at the wedding?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, people · What happens: do · To what, where: wedding

This is test 12 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
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 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 wedding	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wedding	det
10	wedding	wedding	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	mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the people			the wedding			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

sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they cheered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

wept and prayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 prayed	cc
3	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past							vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

danced and feasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 feasted	cc
3	feasted	feast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 danced	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	participle							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feast	participle							vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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