Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and t…

So the house went poof, like totally gone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house · What happens: go · To what, where: poof

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1130 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents, part 36: Ivan Golik joins the prince and saves the mice» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	poof	poof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the house	poof					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poof=Theme
2	go	participle	the house not said here					totally property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, just a pile of soot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pile	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pile	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 pile	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pile	det
5	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 soot	case
7	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pile	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, just a heap of ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 heap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heap	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 heap	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heap	det
5	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 ashes	case
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heap	nmod

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

Option 3

yeah, like the whole thing burned down and the roof just fell in on everything

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burned	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 burned	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burned	nsubj:pass
7	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 burned	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roof	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 fell	advmod
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burned	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 fell	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 everything	case
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	participle · passive		the whole thing					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	fall in	past	the roof			everything			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on everything=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it's still there but everyone moved out and it's all falling apart now

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 moved	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 there	cc
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 moved	nsubj
9	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 moved	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 falling	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 falling	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 falling	aux
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 falling	advmod
15	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 moved	conj
16	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 falling	advmod
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	still	there property	tree rules
2	move out	past	everyone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	fall apart	present · progressive	it	now	all, apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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