Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

bro why'd the little tsar keep running in and out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little tsar · What happens: keep, run · To what, where: little tsar

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1105 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling's warnings and the boiling water» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	vocative
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 tsar	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tsar	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tsar	amod
6	tsar	tsar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 running	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 out	cc
11	out	out	ADV	_	9 in	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present		the little tsar				bro vocative	tree rules
2	run	gerund	the little tsar not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

cuz he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cuz not said here				bored property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cuz the sister kept making him poke the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sister	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 making	obj
7	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 making	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cuz	infinitive			tree rules
2	keep	past	the cuz sister		tree rules
3	make	gerund	the cuz sister not said here	him = he	tree rules
4	poke	infinitive	him = he not said here	the fire	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 3

cuz the fire kept going out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fire	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	cuz	infinitive		tree rules
2	keep	past	the cuz fire	tree rules
3	go out	gerund	the cuz fire not said here	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

cuz he was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cuz not said here				hungry property	tree rules

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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