Test 5 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

so the ox was just straw and tar, no way

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ox · What happens: be · To what, where: straw

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 straw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ox	det
3	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 straw	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 straw	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 straw	advmod
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tar	cc
8	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 straw	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 straw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ox	straw and tar and no way					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

yeah, it was basically a big dummy with a tar coat that the old woman made on the hillock

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 dummy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dummy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dummy	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 dummy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dummy	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dummy	amod
8	dummy	dummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 coat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coat	det
11	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coat	compound
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dummy	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 woman	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coat	nmod
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 woman	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 hillock	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hillock	det
20	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a big dummy		with a tar coat; basically property	tree rules
2	woman		that				tree rules
3	make	participle		the old woman not said here	the hillock		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

kinda, it was a wooden horse with paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	7 horse	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 kinda	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 paint	case
9	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a wooden horse				with paint; kinda property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was basically a big dummy with a tar coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 dummy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dummy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dummy	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 dummy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dummy	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dummy	amod
8	dummy	dummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 coat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coat	det
11	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coat	compound
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dummy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a big dummy				with a tar coat; basically property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, it was basically a big dummy with a tar coat, and it even talked to the bear, so wild

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 dummy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dummy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dummy	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 dummy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dummy	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dummy	amod
8	dummy	dummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 coat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coat	det
11	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coat	compound
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dummy	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 talked	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talked	nsubj
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 talked	advmod
17	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dummy	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bear	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bear	det
20	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wild	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 wild	advmod
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dummy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a big dummy	with a tar coat; basically property	tree rules
2	talk	past	coat		to the bear	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to bear=Co-Agent
3	be					tree rules

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