Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

he forgot to cross himself, didn't he? so what happened?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: forget, not cross, not do, happen · To what, where: himself

This is test 4 · ★ 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cross	mark
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 cross	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 did	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 happened	advmod
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
13	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	forget	past	he		tree rules
2	not cross	to-infinitive	he not said here	himself = he	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	not do	past	he		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 devil came out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 devil	det
2	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the devil					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Satan could grab him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grab	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grab	aux
3	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	could	Satan	him = he					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

The serpent bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 serpent	det
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the serpent	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Accursed One grabbed him by the beard and held him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 One	det
2	Accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 One	amod
3	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 beard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beard	det
8	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 held	cc
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accurs	participle				tree rules
2	grab	past	the Accursed One	him = he	by the beard	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	hold	past	the Accursed One not said here	him = he		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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