Test 4 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

no cap, what made the birds crash out of the sky?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap, birds · What happens: make, crash out · To what, where: sky

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1126 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crash	nsubj
8	crash	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	ccomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 sky	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crash	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	no cap						tree rules
2	crash out	present	the birds	the sky					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Patient

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

the mouse ordered the ants to bite every bird's tail and wing feathers off

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ants	det
5	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bite	mark
7	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ordered	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tail	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 bird	case
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bite	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feathers	cc
13	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feathers	compound
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tail	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	7 bite	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the mouse	the ants					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bite off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the ants not said here	every bird's tail and wing feathers					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the ants bit their wing feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
5	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the ants	ants's wing feathers					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 3

the ants bit the birds' wing feathers so they could not fly at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ants	det
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feathers	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 birds	case
7	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	compound
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bit	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 fly	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fly	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fly	advmod
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bit	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the ants	the birds's wing feathers					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	not fly	could	ants = ant			all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

the arrow struck their wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arrow	det
2	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the arrow	their wings					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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