Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:…
Fam, why does the serpent have to stay a serpent?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: serpent · What happens: have, stay · To what, where: serpent
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1111 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17: the Serpent's three kisses, and Daniel's lucky gifts from a serpent-lady» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 have | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 serpent | det |
| 6 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fam | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 serpent | det |
| 11 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | the serpent | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | the serpent not said here | a serpent | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme serpent=Location |
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
Cause she's cursed to be one for ever by a witch, and nobody can undo it
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 4 cursed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cursed | aux |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 undo | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 one | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cursed | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 cursed | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 witch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 witch | det |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 undo | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 undo | cc |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 undo | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 undo | aux |
| 17 | undo | undo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 undo | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | present · passive | a witch | she | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for ever=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | undo | can | nobody | it | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Cause a jealous witch cursed her long ago and she can never be human again, ever
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 cursed | parataxis |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cursed | nsubj |
| 5 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ago | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 cursed | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 human | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 human | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 human | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 human | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 human | cop |
| 14 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cursed | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 human | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ever | punct |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 cursed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | curse | past | a jealous witch | ever | ago property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not is | can | witch | again | human property | tree rules |
Option 3
Cause some wizard made her that way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wizard | compound |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 wizard | det |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | some Cause wizard | her = she | that way obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Cause she's cursed to be one for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 4 cursed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cursed | aux |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 one | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cursed | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 cursed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | present · passive | she | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for ever=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | one | tree rules |
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