Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…

Where do the horses drag him, the open sea or the endless steppe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horses · What happens: drag · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drag	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drag	nsubj
5	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drag	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sea	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drag	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 steppe	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 steppe	det
13	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 steppe	amod
14	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sea	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drag	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	present · do-support	the horses	him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice

the open sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the endless steppe and the open sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steppe	det
2	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steppe	amod
3	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sea	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 steppe	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the endless steppe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steppe	det
2	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steppe	amod
3	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the frozen river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 river	amod
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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