Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40:…

ok real talk, why'd the crow say the fox couldn't cut the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crow, fox · What happens: say, not cut · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 say	advmod
6	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crow	det
8	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cut	advmod
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the crow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not cut	could	the fox	the tree					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product

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

no tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 tools	det
2	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

no saw, no blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 saw	det
2	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blade	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 blade	det
5	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no axe, no knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 axe	det
2	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knife	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 axe	conj

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

Option 4

no saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 saw	det
2	saw	saw	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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