Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

Dude, why was Tremsin blubbing by his horse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, Tremsin · What happens: be, blubb · To what, where: Tremsin

This is test 2 · ★ 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	5 Tremsin	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	5 Tremsin	cop
5	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	blubbing	blubb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Tremsin	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blubbing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Tremsin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	Tremsin					tree rules
2	blubb	gerund	Tremsin not said here					by Tremsin's horse	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

He had been told the nobleman would kill him if he failed

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 told	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nobleman	det
6	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	aux
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 failed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 failed	nsubj
12	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		He	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	kill	would	the nobleman	him = he	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	nobleman		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The task was well impossible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 task	det
2	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 impossible	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 impossible	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 impossible	advmod
5	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the task					impossible, well property	tree rules

Option 3

He had lost all his money gambling and had nowhere left to go

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 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 gambling	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gambling	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gambling	compound
7	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 left	advmod
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lost	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	He	his money gambling		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gambling=Eventuality
2	leave	past · perfect	He not said here		nowhere property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gamble		his = he			nom gambling «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He lost his favourite horse

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
4	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his favourite horse					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality

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