Test 2 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six bro…
wait so the king didnt kill him??
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, king didnt · What happens: wait, kill · To what, where: him
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 667 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six brothers show their trades to the king, and he calls them to his counsellors» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 kill | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 didnt | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 didnt | compound |
| 5 | didnt | didnt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wait | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | the king didnt | him = he | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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
yeah, he beheaded him at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 beheaded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheaded | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beheaded | nsubj |
| 4 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beheaded | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dawn | case |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheaded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behead | past | he | him = he | dawn | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
nah, he kept his royal word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | his royal word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | word | his = he | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
nah, he fled the palace quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 fled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obj |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fled | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | he | the palace | quick property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Initial_Location |
Option 4
yeah, he did it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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