Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Iv…
Did the cock-dove remember her favour?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cock dove, dove · What happens: remember, favour · To what, where: favour
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1128 «Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Ivan is tricked and the dragon is fooled, then the maiden becomes a fish» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remember | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dove | det |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dove | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 cock | punct |
| 5 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remember | nsubj |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 favour | nmod:poss |
| 8 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remember | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 remember | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past · do-support | the cock dove | dove's favour | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent favour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | favour | dove | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Yeah, he said he remembered the whole thing, she cleared the field and sowed wheat
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 remembered | nsubj |
| 6 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remembered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cleared | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cleared | nsubj |
| 12 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cleared | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sowed | cc |
| 16 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sowed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | remember | past | he | the whole thing | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clear | past | she | the field | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent field=Source | ||||
| 4 | sow | past | he not said here | wheat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he said forgotten, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 forgotten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forgotten | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 5 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgotten | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · passive | he | mate vocative | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, he said she was fit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | cop |
| 7 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | she | fit property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he said forgotten, mate, he couldn't remember her favour at all, innit
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 forgotten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forgotten | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 5 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgotten | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 remember | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 remember | advmod |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forgotten | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 favour | nmod:poss |
| 14 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remember | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 remember | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 remember | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · passive | he | mate vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not remember | could | he | her favour | all | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent favour=Theme | |||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | favour | her = she | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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