Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Bruh, why did the simpleton bail on the first try?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: simpleton bail, first try

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1107 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: the boy buys the holy image and is sent to the church» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bail	det
6	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bail	compound
7	bail	bail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 try	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 try	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 try	amod
11	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the simpleton bail		the first try			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bail=Eventuality

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

he was afraid of the dark night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				night	afraid property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he thought the door was locked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux:pass
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lock	past · passive		the door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

he was just lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was scared she'd tear him to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tear	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tear	aux
6	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tear	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bits	case
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	tear	would	she	him = he				to bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to bit=Result

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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