Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

Dude, why was the corn still in the field?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: corn, field

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1110 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin wins the herd and the Nastasia's riddle, then a labourer's wife turns out to be a serpent» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corn	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Dude	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 corn	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corn	det
6	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	still	still	ADV	_	10 field	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corn	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 corn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the corn		the field			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 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody had bothered to look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bothered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bothered	aux
3	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bothered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bother	past · perfect	Nobody						tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

The field was flooded so he couldn't get the cart in there at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 field	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flooded	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flooded	aux:pass
4	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flooded	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cart	det
11	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 there	case
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 get	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past · passive		the field					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	not get	could	he	the cart		all			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cart=Theme at all=Asset

Option 3

He had been ill in bed for most of the whole summer

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 ill	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ill	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 most	case
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 ill	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 summer	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 summer	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 summer	amod
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	He			bed		for most of the whole summer; ill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody had gathered it in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 gathered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	aux
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	3 gathered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past · perfect	Nobody	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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