Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

Wait, what happened to the nobleman in the third vat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, happen

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 nobleman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nobleman	det
7	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 vat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vat	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 vat	amod
11	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nobleman	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past						to the nobleman in the third vat	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

He was boiled alive and then crushed in the vat

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 boiled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	aux:pass
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boiled	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 crushed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 crushed	advmod
7	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 vat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vat	det
10	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past · passive		He				alive property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	crush	past				the vat	then		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He ran away

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	He					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He floated off

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 floated	nsubj
2	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 floated	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He burst to bits

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 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bits	case
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	He					to bits	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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