Test 12 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

was the old man on board with the plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old man, board

This is test 12 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 board	case
6	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 plan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old man		board		with the plan	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 · ← Mova's choice

nope, he was like, you're being foolish, woman, but he later said it was a clever plan

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	10 foolish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 foolish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	cop
5	like	like	INTJ	_	10 foolish	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 foolish	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	cop
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 foolish	cop
10	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foolish	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 said	advmod
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 plan	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 plan	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 plan	det
21	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 plan	amod
22	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		woman vocative; foolish property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he		late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	a clever plan		tree rules

Option 2

nope, he was like, you're being silly, dear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	10 silly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 silly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 silly	cop
5	like	like	INTJ	_	10 silly	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 silly	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 silly	cop
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 silly	cop
10	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dear	punct
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 silly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					silly property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he was like, you're being foolish, woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	10 foolish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 foolish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	cop
5	like	like	INTJ	_	10 foolish	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 foolish	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	cop
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 foolish	cop
10	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foolish	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					woman vocative; foolish property	tree rules

Option 4

nope, he was like, you're being foolish, woman, and he went off to burn pitch in the fields

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	10 foolish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 foolish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	cop
5	like	like	INTJ	_	10 foolish	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 foolish	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	cop
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 foolish	cop
10	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foolish	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foolish	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 went	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 burn	mark
19	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	xcomp
20	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burn	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 fields	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fields	det
23	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			woman vocative; foolish property	tree rules
2	go off	past	he				tree rules
3	burn	to-infinitive	he not said here	pitch	the fields		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pitch=Theme

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