Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outw…

bruh, why did the dude keep reading and not even look up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: keep, read, not look up

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 look	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 look	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 look	advmod
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reading	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 look	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the dude	tree rules
2	read	gerund	the dude not said here	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not look up	infinitive	the dude not said here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Because he was afraid of the ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

He just wanted to finish fast

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 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 finish	mark
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 finish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	finish not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					fast property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Cause the saint told him to keep reading and never look up at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saint	det
3	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Cause	parataxis
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cause	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 look	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	tell speech: assert	past	the saint	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the saint not said here			tree rules
4	read	gerund	the saint not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not look up	infinitive	you not said here		at saint	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause the saint said don't look up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saint	det
3	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 look	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 look	advmod
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cause	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 look	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not look up	past · do-support	the saint						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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