Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks…

Did the daughter want anything back, like a reward or sum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: want back · To what, where: anything

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1127 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Magic Egg, part 33: the egg breaks, the dragon claims Ivan, and his three tasks begin» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 daughter	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 want	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reward	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 reward	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 reward	det
10	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 sum	cc
12	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reward	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	present	the daughter	anything					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=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

For him to marry her and take her home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 marry	mark
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 marry	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 home	nmod:poss
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive	him = he	her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	take	infinitive	him = he not said here	her home					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 2

Some gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 coins	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

For him to wed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wed	mark
4	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 him	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Him to marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 marry	mark
3	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive	Him = he	her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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