Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

Dude, why'd the youngest bro bring a foal inside, like what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: bring · To what, where: foal

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 bring	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bro	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bro	amod
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	nsubj
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 foal	det
10	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obj
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 bring	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 bring	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	Dude		a foal			inside property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent foal=Destination what=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

To hide it from dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hide	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 dad	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		it				from dad	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from dad=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To keep it close to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		it				close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

To eat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Cause it was cold out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 cold	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	aux:pass
4	cold	col	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 cold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	col out	past · passive		it					tree rules

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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