Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the b…

bro, what did the Empress do before the second night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Empress · What happens: do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1121 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the bride trades apples for nights with her husband» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 bro	conj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Empress	det
6	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the Empress				night		vn act-114-1 «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

soothed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soothed	soothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 soothed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soothe	past		him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

kissed him into a good mood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kissed	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 mood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mood	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mood	amod
6	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past		him = he		a good mood			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

kissed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past		him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4

gave him a warm drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		a warm drink	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme

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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