Test 14 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

the Tsar's wife was dope, right, she thought of the ditch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife dope · What happens: be, think · To what, where: wife dope

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1102 «Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar promises Satan what awaits him at home, and the children are hidden in a ditch» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tsar	det
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dope	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Tsar	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dope	compound
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dope	cop
6	dope	dope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dope	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	11 thought	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 ditch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ditch	det
14	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Tsar's wife dope					tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the Tsar's wife dope					of the ditch	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, the Tsar thought of it and told her to hide them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Tsar			of it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Tsar not said here		Tsar		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Tsar not said here	them = they			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, she hid the kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she	the kids					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

Option 3

Yes, she thought of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she					of it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said hide them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hide	infinitive		them = they					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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