Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins t…

bro, how did the prince even bend that bow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: bend · To what, where: bow

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1132 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins the serpent's daughter with Golik's help, then plans to go home» 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	8 bend	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bend	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 bend	advmod
8	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bow	det
10	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bend	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past · do-support	bro	that bow					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material

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

Golik told him to act like it's beneath him and then pull with all his might

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 act	mark
5	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 him	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 him	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 him	cop
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 act	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pull	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 pull	advmod
13	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 might	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 might	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 might	nmod:poss
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pull	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Golik	him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	act not said to happen	to-infinitive	Golik not said here				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it			beneath Golik	tree rules
4	pull	infinitive	Golik not said here		then		vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

his father's strength made it bend easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strength	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 father	case
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	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 made	obj
7	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 bend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	his father's strength	it					tree rules
2	bend	infinitive						easily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Golik told him to act like it's beneath him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golik	Golik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 act	mark
5	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 him	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 him	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 him	cop
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 act	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Golik	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	act not said to happen	to-infinitive	Golik not said here			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it		beneath Golik	tree rules

Option 4

he trained for seven years in secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trained	nsubj
2	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trained	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 secret	case
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	past	he			secret	year		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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