Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

Wifey was so salty about it, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wifey · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1099 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scatters money» 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	Wifey	Wifey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 salty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 salty	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 salty	advmod
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 salty	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 salty	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	4 salty	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wifey					about it; salty 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, she yelled at the kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 yelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yelled	nsubj
4	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 kids	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	she					at the kids	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at kid=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, she railed and scolded him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 railed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 railed	nsubj
4	railed	rail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scolded	cc
6	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 railed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scolded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rail	past	she						tree rules
2	scold	past	she not said here	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Yep, she railed and scolded him, and then refused to let him in

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 railed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 railed	nsubj
4	railed	rail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scolded	cc
6	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 railed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scolded	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 refused	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 refused	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 refused	advmod
11	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 railed	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 let	mark
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 refused	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	13 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	rail	past	she			tree rules
2	scold	past	she not said here	him = he		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	refuse	past	she not said here		then	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not let in	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yep, she railed and scolded him for hours and hours without stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 railed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 railed	nsubj
4	railed	rail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scolded	cc
6	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 railed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scolded	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 hours	case
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scolded	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hours	cc
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hours	conj
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 stopping	mark
13	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 railed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	rail	past	she			tree rules
2	scold	past	she not said here	him = he	hour	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	stop	gerund	she not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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