Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder br…

Mate, where do the two princes lose their road?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two princes · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: road

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princes	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 princes	nummod
7	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	nsubj
8	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	ccomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 road	nmod:poss
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						Mate vocative	tree rules
2	lose	present	the two princes	princes's road					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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

At the bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 bridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bridge	det
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Where three roads meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 meet	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 roads	nummod
3	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meet	nsubj
4	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	three roads						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

At the edge of the old wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 edge	det
3	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 edge	nmod

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

Option 4

At the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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