Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

No way, the foal said pick the feather up, and he did anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: foal · What happens: say, pick up, do · To what, where: way, feather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foal	det
5	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feather	det
9	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	7 pick	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
15	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 did	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the foal	no way		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pick up	infinitive		the feather		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic
3	do	past	foal		anyway property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, he picked it up anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 picked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	he	it				anyway property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Yep, he said he'd be dumb not to, so he grabbed it right away

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	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	8 dumb	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dumb	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dumb	cop
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dumb	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	9 not	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grabbed	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 grabbed	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grabbed	nsubj
14	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grabbed	obj
16	right	right	ADV	_	17 away	advmod
17	away	away	ADV	_	14 grabbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	would	he		dumb property	tree rules
3	grab	past	he	it	away property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he just left it there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 left	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he said he'd be dumb not to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	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	8 dumb	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dumb	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dumb	cop
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dumb	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	9 not	fixed

#	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	not is	would	he					dumb property	tree rules

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