Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six bro…

the cross bow never misses huh

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cross bow · What happens: not miss

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bow	det
2	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bow	amod
3	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 misses	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 misses	advmod
5	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	huh	huh	INTJ	_	5 misses	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not miss	present	the cross bow						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

nah, the bolt misses what the eye sees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 misses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bolt	det
4	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 misses	nsubj
5	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 sees	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	nsubj
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 misses	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	the bolt						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	present	the eye						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

Option 2

yep, the arrow hits whatever it touches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 hits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arrow	det
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hits	nsubj
5	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 touches	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 touches	nsubj
8	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hits	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	the arrow						tree rules
2	touch	present	arrow	whatever					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whatever=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, the bolt hits whatever the eye sees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 hits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bolt	det
4	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hits	nsubj
5	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sees	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eye	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	nsubj
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hits	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	the bolt						tree rules
2	see	present	the eye	whatever					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, it misses a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 misses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 misses	nsubj
4	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 misses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	it	a lot					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus

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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