Test 4 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40:…
wait, what was the fox tryna get from that tree?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, get · To what, where: fox tryna, tree
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 700 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40: the fox tricks the magpie and the crow, then meets a bear who needs a mourner» 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 get | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tryna | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tryna | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tryna | compound |
| 7 | tryna | tryna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | is a | past | the fox tryna | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | present | that tree | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from tree=Source |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a young magpie for dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 magpie | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magpie | amod |
| 3 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 dinner | case |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 magpie | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a whole nest of young magpies to keep for the winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nest | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nest | amod |
| 3 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 magpies | case |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 magpies | amod |
| 6 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nest | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nest | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 winter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 winter | det |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | winter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
the magpie's whole nest and every feather inside it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magpie | det |
| 2 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nest | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 magpie | case |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nest | amod |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feather | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 feather | det |
| 8 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nest | conj |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feather | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a young crow for supper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crow | amod |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 supper | case |
| 5 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crow | nmod |
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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