Test 7 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

did the ox talk back to the bear?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ox · What happens: talk back

This is test 7 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ox	det
3	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	nsubj
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk back	past · do-support	the ox						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yep, it said it was a three-year-old heifer, which is so savage, and then it kept walking away

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heifer	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heifer	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 heifer	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 year	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 three	punct
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 year	punct
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heifer	amod
13	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 savage	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 savage	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 savage	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 savage	advmod
18	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heifer	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 kept	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kept	nsubj
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
24	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 kept	xcomp
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a old heifer			tree rules
3	is	present	a old heifer			savage property	tree rules
4	keep	past	heifer		then		tree rules
5	walk away	gerund	heifer not said here			away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

kinda, it said it was a goat, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 kinda	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 goat	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 goat	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 goat	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it					kinda property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a goat					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep, it said it was a horse, which is so weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 horse	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 horse	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weird	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 weird	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 weird	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 weird	advmod
13	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a horse		tree rules
3	is	present	a horse		weird property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, it said it was a three-year-old heifer, which is so savage

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heifer	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heifer	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 heifer	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 year	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 three	punct
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 year	punct
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heifer	amod
13	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 savage	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 savage	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 savage	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 savage	advmod
18	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heifer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a old heifer		tree rules
3	is	present	a old heifer		savage property	tree rules

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