Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outw…
did the merchants stick around or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchants · What happens: stick around
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stick | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchants | det |
| 3 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stick | nsubj |
| 4 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 4 stick | advmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 what | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 stick | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick around | past · do-support | the merchants | around property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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
Yeah, they stayed in the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | they | the palace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
Option 2
Nope, they sailed off with the nephew and never came back to the kingdom
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 sailed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 sailed | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 nephew | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nephew | det |
| 8 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sailed | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail off | past | they | with the nephew | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not come back | past | they not said here | the kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, they stayed a year and drank wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drank | cc |
| 8 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drank | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | they | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | they not said here | wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nope, they sailed off with the nephew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 sailed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 sailed | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 nephew | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nephew | det |
| 8 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail off | past | they | with the nephew | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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