Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outw…

yo, the church lady in the coffin, was she a real ghost or what, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: church lady · What happens: be · To what, where: real ghost

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1108 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outwits the unclean spirit and wins the Tsar's daughter» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 lady	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	compound
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ghost	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 coffin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffin	det
8	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ghost	cop
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ghost	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ghost	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ghost	amod
14	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 ghost	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 cap	det
19	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 ghost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the church lady in the coffin	a real ghost					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

Nah, she was just sleeping in a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sleeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleeping	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sleeping	advmod
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 box	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 box	det
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	she			a box			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in box=Location

Option 2

Yeah, a spirit was possessing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 possessing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 possessing	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spirit	det
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possessing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 possessing	aux
6	possessing	possess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 possessing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	past · progressive	a spirit	her = she					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she had an unclean spirit in her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spirit	det
6	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spirit	amod
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a unclean spirit					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was a real ghost with an unclean spirit that had possessed her body

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 ghost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ghost	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ghost	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ghost	amod
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 spirit	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spirit	det
10	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spirit	amod
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ghost	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 possessed	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 possessed	aux
14	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 spirit	acl:relcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 body	nmod:poss
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 possessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a real ghost				with a unclean spirit	tree rules
2	possess	past · perfect · passive		a unclean spirit					tree rules

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