Test 10 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

what's a steppe, is it a forest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: forest, steppe · What happens: be · To what, where: steppe, forest

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1113 «Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a hungry bear with a tar-smeared straw ox» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 steppe	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 steppe	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 steppe	det
4	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forest	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 steppe	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 forest	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forest	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 forest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a forest	a steppe					tree rules
2	is a	present	a steppe	a forest					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

nope, it's a dark wood full of pines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 wood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wood	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wood	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wood	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 pines	case
10	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a dark wood					tree rules

Option 2

nope, it's a huge wide grassy plain with no trees, where the cows graze in summer

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	9 plain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plain	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
8	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plain	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 graze	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 graze	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cows	det
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 graze	nsubj
17	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plain	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 summer	case
19	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 graze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a huge wide grassy plain				with no trees	tree rules
2	graze	present	the cows				summer		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nope, it's a huge wide grassy plain with no trees, only the dark wood far behind the pines

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	9 plain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plain	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
8	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plain	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wood	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 wood	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wood	amod
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plain	conj
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 wood	advmod
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 pines	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pines	det
21	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a huge wide grassy plain and the dark wood				with no trees	tree rules

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

nope, it's a huge wide grassy plain with no trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	9 plain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plain	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
8	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plain	amod
9	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a huge wide grassy plain				with no trees	tree rules

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