--- title: salty stepsisters, what did their house lack? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beau… · tree and pragmatics description: salty stepsisters, what did their house lack? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 443 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull burns the stepmother, and Vasilissa becomes the king's wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/443-pg22373-part35/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beau…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/443-pg22373-part35/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur… salty stepsisters, what did their house lack? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** salty stepsisters, stepsisters · **What happens:** do, lack · **To what, where:** house lack This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 443 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull burns the stepmother, and Vasilissa becomes the king's wife» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/443-pg22373-part35/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t10:1 # text = salty stepsisters, what did their house lack? 1 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 stepsisters stepsister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | salty stepsisters | stepsisters's house lack | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Eventuality | | 2 | **lack** | | stepsisters *= stepsister* | | | | | | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} a clean floor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t10:o1:1 # text = a clean floor 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} a spark of fire ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t10:o2:1 # text = a spark of fire 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spark** | | fire | | | | | | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} a spark of fire and the warmth of any living kin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t10:o3:1 # text = a spark of fire and the warmth of any living kin 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 kin kin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spark** | | fire | | | | | | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} no light ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t10:o4:1 # text = no light 1 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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