Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

Bro, which day had forty-one daughters, and who even were the brides?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: day, Bro · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one daughters, brides

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1129 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal saves the brothers from Wednesday and the youngest wins the Tsar's favour» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 forty	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brides	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brides	cc
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 brides	nsubj
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 brides	advmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brides	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brides	det
16	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bro	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	which day	one daughters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is a	past	Bro and the brides	the brides					tree rules

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

Thursday, and the brides were friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friends	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 friends	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brides	det
5	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 friends	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 friends	cop
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thursday	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the brides	friends					tree rules

Option 2

Wednesday, and the brides were all the girls from the village plus the sisters and a cousin

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 girls	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 girls	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brides	det
5	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 girls	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 girls	cop
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 girls	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girls	det
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wednesday	appos
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 girls	nmod
13	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	15 sisters	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sisters	det
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wednesday	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cousin	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cousin	det
18	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wednesday	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the brides	all girls		the village			tree rules

Option 3

Wednesday, and the brides were the forty-one daughters of the old man's sister who lived by the lake

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 daughters	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 daughters	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brides	det
5	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 daughters	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 daughters	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughters	det
8	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 forty	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 daughters	nummod
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wednesday	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 sister	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sister	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughters	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sister	acl:relcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 lake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lake	det
22	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the brides	the one daughters				of the old man's sister	tree rules
2	live	past	the old man's sister					by the lake	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lake=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wednesday, and the brides were the sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sisters	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sisters	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brides	det
5	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sisters	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sisters	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wednesday	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the brides	the sisters					tree rules

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