Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

why's the dragon such a big deal anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: dragon

This is test 13 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dragon	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dragon	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nsubj
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 deal	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 deal	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the dragon					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 · ✓ the right answer

it's the only spring the city has

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spring	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spring	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spring	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spring	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the only spring					tree rules
2	have	present	the city	the only spring not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spring=Patient

Option 2

it's the city's main well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 main	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 main	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 city	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 main	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 city	case
6	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 main	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					main, well property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it's the only spring the city has, so everyone has to go there and the dragon eats them

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spring	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spring	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spring	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obl:unmarked
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 has	advmod
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 has	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 has	xcomp
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 go	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eats	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dragon	det
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eats	nsubj
19	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 has	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the only spring		tree rules
2	have	present	the city			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	everyone			tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	everyone not said here		there	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	present	the dragon	them = they		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

it's the only spring the city has left since the old well dried up and the river went bad

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spring	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl:unmarked
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	since	since	ADP	_	12 old	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 old	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 left	xcomp
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 dried	advmod
14	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 old	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 dried	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	conj
20	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect · passive		it	spring	leave, old property	tree rules
2	dry up	participle				well property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	go	past	the river			bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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