Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…
did the dogs eventually get through all the doors?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: do, get · To what, where: doors
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dogs | det |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | ccomp |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 doors | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 doors | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doors | det |
| 9 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | the dogs | all doors | eventually property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Destination |
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
no, they chewed the last door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 chewed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chewed | nsubj |
| 4 | chewed | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 door | amod |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chewed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | past | they | the last door | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yep, all of em, then they rested
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 9 rested | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 yep | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 em | case |
| 5 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 rested | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rested | nsubj |
| 9 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | they | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yep, every single one of them got through, and then they lay down and rested by the fire
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 8 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 lay | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rested | cc |
| 17 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lay | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rested | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get through | past | every single one of them | through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | they | then | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rest | participle | they not said here | by the fire | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location |
Option 4
yep, they got through the walls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 walls | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | the walls | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through wall=Destination |
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