Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…

what'd the Tsar say would happen if they failed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tsar, they · What happens: say, happen, fail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1115 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slippers are left behind and the search begins» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 'd	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 'd	ccomp
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 happen	aux
7	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 failed	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 failed	nsubj
10	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happen	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 'd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Tsar	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	they	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

They would be jailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jailed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 jailed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 jailed	aux:pass
4	jailed	jail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jail	would · passive		They					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

They would be whipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whipped	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 whipped	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 whipped	aux:pass
4	whipped	whip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	would · passive		They					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

Option 3

They would be sent away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	would · passive		They				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They would be dead men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 men	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 men	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 men	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	They	dead men					tree rules

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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