Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

wait, what did ivan's wife tell him to cut down for the hut?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: wait, tell, cut down · To what, where: ivan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1119 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun, part 1: Ivan buys incense, chooses a wife, and builds a hut» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
5	ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 ivan	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cut	mark
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 cut	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	ivan's wife	ivan		tree rules
3	cut down not said to happen	to-infinitive	ivan's wife not said here		for the hut	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for hut=Asset

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

A young oak he could span, and bring its roots back to the house

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oak	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oak	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 span	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 span	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 span	aux
6	span	span	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bring	cc
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 span	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 roots	nmod:poss
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bring	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	9 bring	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	span	could	a young oak						vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	bring back	infinitive	a young oak not said here	its roots		the house			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent root=Theme to house=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A young pine he could carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pine	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pine	amod
3	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pine	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	he	a young pine not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pine=Theme

Option 3

A young birch he could carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 birch	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birch	amod
3	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 birch	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	he	a young birch not said here					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birch=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A young oak he could span

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oak	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oak	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 span	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 span	aux
6	span	span	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 oak	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	span	could	he	a young oak not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oak=Co-Theme

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