Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

what even was the whitethorn tree?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: whitethorn tree

This is test 4 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	6 tree	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the whitethorn tree					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

a tree from the bullock's bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 bones	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bullock	det
5	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bones	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bullock	case
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tree	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it grew where the horse fell

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	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 fell	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the horse						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it grew where the bullock got killed

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	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 got	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bullock	det
5	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	advcl
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	grow	past	it	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	the bullock	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	kill	participle	the bullock not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

it grew where the bullock got killed, from the blood on the ground and the bones

The tree, 16 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	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 killed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bullock	det
5	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grew	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blood	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 blood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blood	det
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blood	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bones	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bones	det
17	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ground	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past · passive		the bullock					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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