Test 7 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40:…

wait, who was the sus bird that roasted the magpie for being dumb?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sus bird · What happens: wait, be, roast · To what, where: sus bird, magpie

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	7 bird	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 bird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 roasted	nsubj
9	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 magpie	det
11	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roasted	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 dumb	case
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dumb	cop
14	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roasted	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the sus bird		tree rules
3	roast	past	the sus bird	the magpie		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent magpie=Patient
4	is	gerund			dumb property	tree rules

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 owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the bear who came to mourn the magpie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bear	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 mourn	mark
6	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magpie	det
8	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mourn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the bear						tree rules
2	mourn	to-infinitive	the bear not said here	the magpie					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer magpie=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	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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