Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder br…

Wait, what does the witch fetch from the cave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: witch fetch, cave

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1122 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder brother is turned to stone, and the younger brother wins him back from a witch» 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	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fetch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	compound
7	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present		the witch fetch		the cave			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fetch=Eventuality

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

Healing water that brings him back to life from the stone he's become

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 water	acl:relcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brings	iobj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 brings	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 stone	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 become	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
14	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 stone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	heal	gerund						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bring back	present	Healing water		him = he	the stone	to life	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination from stone=Initial_Location
3	become	present · passive	he	the stone not said here				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient stone=Result

Option 2

Water from the sacred spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 spring	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spring	det
4	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Healing water in a sealed jar that brings him back to life again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 jar	csubj
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Healing	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 jar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jar	det
5	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 jar	amod
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 brings	nsubj
8	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 jar	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brings	iobj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 brings	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 life	case
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brings	obl
13	again	again	ADV	_	8 brings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	heal	gerund		water				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	seal	participle						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	bring back	present	a sealed jar		him = he	life	again	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Healing water that brings him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 water	acl:relcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brings	iobj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 brings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bring back	present	Healing water		him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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