Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

Lol, what's the serpent gonna do, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: serpent · What happens: be, like · To what, where: serpent

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 serpent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 serpent	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 serpent	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 serpent	det
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 like	dep
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 like	aux
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 serpent	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 serpent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the serpent					tree rules
2	like	infinitive · do-support	the serpent not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Drag him off down to its den under the big old tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Drag	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Drag	compound:prt
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Drag	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 den	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 den	nmod:poss
7	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 down	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	12 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drag	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag off	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the big old tree		down property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eat him on the spot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 spot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spot	det
5	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the spot			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Squeeze him flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obj
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	him = he				flat property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

Option 4

Gobble him whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gobble	obj
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gobble	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	imperative	you not said here	him = he				whole property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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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