Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins t…

so was that horse, like, an actual horse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: horse

This is test 2 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 horse	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 horse	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 horse	mark
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 horse	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 horse	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 horse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		horse and a actual horse					tree rules

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, it was the serpent's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 son	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 son	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 son	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 serpent	det
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 serpent	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the serpent's son					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it was the youngest daughter in disguise, trust me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 daughter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daughter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trust	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 disguise	case
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 daughter	punct
11	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the youngest daughter		disguise			tree rules
2	trust	infinitive	the youngest daughter	me					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

Option 3

nah, it was the eldest daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 daughter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daughter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the eldest daughter					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was the youngest daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 daughter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daughter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the youngest daughter					tree rules

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