Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

did the mum know what the flute was singing about?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, flute · What happens: know, sing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1117 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder» 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 know	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 singing	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flute	det
7	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singing	aux
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 know	ccomp
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 singing	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the mum						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the flute					about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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

she heard the whole thing and told the father right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 father	det
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	7 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	the whole thing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here		the father			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she heard the whole thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	the whole thing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 3

she heard the whole thing from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	the whole thing		the kitchen			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Topic from kitchen=Source

Option 4

she only heard a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	a song					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus

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