Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

what's the deal with the little fox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 fox	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fox	amod
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the little fox						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 · ← Mova's choice

it scattered the ashes to the wind, all four of them, across the fields and the hills

The tree, 17 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 scattered	nsubj
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ashes	det
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scattered	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 four	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 four	det
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 scattered	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 four	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fields	punct
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fields	det
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scattered	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hills	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hills	det
19	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fields	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	it	the ashes				to the wind	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme

Option 2

it dropped them in the river

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 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it	them = they		the river			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in river=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it scattered the ashes to the wind

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 scattered	nsubj
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ashes	det
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scattered	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	it	the ashes				to the wind	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme

Option 4

it scattered the ashes to the wind and then ran off into the forest to hide

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 scattered	nsubj
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ashes	det
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scattered	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scattered	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 ran	advmod
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scattered	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hide	mark
16	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	it	the ashes		to the wind	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
2	run off	past			then	into the forest result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result
3	hide	to-infinitive					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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