Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Daniel the Cossack, part 18: Daniel i…

why did the Tsarivna want the cherry-tree chopped down?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tsarivna · What happens: want, chop down · To what, where: cherry tree

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1112 «Russian Fairy Tales, Daniel the Cossack, part 18: Daniel is betrayed, turned into a horse, and returns as a drake-man» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsarivna	det
4	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cherry	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
10	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tree	acl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 chopped	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the Tsarivna	the cherry tree					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme
2	chop down	participle		the cherry tree not said here					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

"That tree will be my ruin"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ruin	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruin	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 ruin	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ruin	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ruin	nmod:poss
7	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ruin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	future	that tree	my ruin					tree rules

Option 2

"It is too tall"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tall	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tall	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	It					tall property	tree rules

Option 3

"It shades my window"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 shades	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shades	nsubj
3	shades	shade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 window	nmod:poss
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shades	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 shades	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shade in a quote	present	It	my window					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

"This tree blocks my garden"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blocks	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	nsubj
4	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 garden	nmod:poss
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 blocks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block in a quote	present	this tree	my garden					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer garden=Theme

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