Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

Bro, what did the raven say, that the village was like cursed?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, say, curse · To what, where: raven, village · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 raven	det
6	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cursed	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 cursed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cursed	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cursed	aux:pass
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 cursed	mark
14	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the raven	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	curse	past · passive		the village	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Yeah, no luck or happiness there, and the wells were all dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 luck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 luck	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 luck	det
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 happiness	cc
6	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 luck	conj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 happiness	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dry	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dry	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wells	det
11	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dry	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dry	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 dry	advmod
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 luck	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wells					all, dry property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, all the roads were muddy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 muddy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 roads	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roads	det
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 muddy	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 muddy	cop
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all roads					muddy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, no luck or happiness there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 luck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 luck	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 luck	det
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 happiness	cc
6	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 luck	conj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 happiness	advmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, no luck or happiness there, so he should leave at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 luck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 luck	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 luck	det
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 happiness	cc
6	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 luck	conj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 happiness	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leave	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 leave	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leave	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	aux
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 luck	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	should	he						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location

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