Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outw…

how did he stay calm the whole time, like a total boss?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: stay

This is test 13 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stay	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boss	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 boss	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boss	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boss	amod
13	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · do-support	he				time	calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He kept praying and never looked up

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 looked	advmod
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 looked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past	He	tree rules
2	pray	gerund	He not said here	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	not look up	past	He not said here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

He kept praying out loud and never once looked up at the ghost

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	out	out	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADV	_	3 praying	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 looked	advmod
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 looked	advmod
9	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kept	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 looked	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 ghost	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ghost	det
13	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He		tree rules
2	pray	gerund	He not said here	loud property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	not look up	participle	He not said here	at the ghost; once property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ghost=Theme

Option 3

He just kept his eyes shut

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 kept	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obj
6	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He	his eyes				shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

Option 4

He prayed hard and avoided her gaze

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 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 prayed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 avoided	cc
5	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gaze	nmod:poss
7	gaze	gaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoided	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pray	past	He		hard property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	avoid	past	He not said here	her gaze		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent gaze=Location
3	gaze		her = she			nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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