Test 6 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

why was grandma spinning, like, all day

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandma · What happens: spin

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spinning	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spinning	aux
3	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spinning	nsubj
4	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 spinning	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spinning	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spinning	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · progressive	grandma				day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to make flax into thread, that's how they got by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 thread	case
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 how	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 how	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 how	cop
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		flax	thread		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent flax=Material into thread=Product
2	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
3	get by	past	they				vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

to make flax into thread, that's how they got by, and she sang while she worked on the hillock

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 thread	case
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 how	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 how	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 how	cop
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 got	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sang	nsubj
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 worked	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 worked	nsubj
19	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sang	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 hillock	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hillock	det
22	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		flax	thread		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent flax=Material into thread=Product
2	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
3	get by	past	they				vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	past	she				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	work	past	she			on the hillock	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hillock=Theme

Option 3

to make cloth, that's how they lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lived	advcl
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 how	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 how	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 how	cop
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lived	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	they not said here	cloth		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cloth=Product
2	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
3	live	past	they			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

to knit socks for the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 knit	mark
2	knit	knit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knit	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knit	to-infinitive		socks				for the village	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sock=Material for village=Beneficiary

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