Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

yo, what did the archer say after the drop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: archer · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 archer	det
6	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 drop	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drop	det
10	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the archer				after the drop		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

felt like a broken stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 stick	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stick	amod
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past						like a broken stick	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like stick=Theme
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

felt like someone had taken all of his breath and blood away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	felt	felt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 taken	mark
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 taken	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 felt	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 taken	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 breath	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 breath	nmod:poss
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 all	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blood	cc
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 breath	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	6 all	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	someone	all					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

felt like no life in him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	felt	felt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 life	case
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 life	det
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 felt	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 felt	nmod

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

Option 4

felt like he had no life left in him at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 felt	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 life	det
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 life	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	he	no life			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
3	leave	participle		no life not said here	all	in him = he result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in he=Result

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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