Test 11 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

how'd the ox get dragged off, like, fast?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: drag off · To what, where: ox

This is test 11 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dragged	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 dragged	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ox	det
4	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dragged	nsubj:pass
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dragged	aux:pass
6	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 dragged	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	11 fast	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dragged	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dragged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag off	present · passive		the ox					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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

it just walked and the bear fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the bear						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it just kept walking slowly and pulled the bear along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 walking	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pulled	cc
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
10	along	along	ADV	_	7 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it			tree rules
2	walk	gerund			slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pull	past		the bear	along property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme

Option 3

it rolled down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 hill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll down	past	it	the hill					vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme

Option 4

it just ran fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ran	advmod

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