Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins t…

fam, what's the seven-year thing about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: be · To what, where: year thing

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 year	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 seven	punct
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	appos
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 thing	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fam	the year thing				about property	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 · ← Mova's choice

to hide the truth from her

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		the truth					tree rules

Option 2

don't tell your wife the truth about the bow for seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 bow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bow	det
10	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 truth	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the truth	your wife		year	about the bow	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient truth=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

don't tell your wife the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the truth	your wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient truth=Topic

Option 4

it's so he never tells his wife the whole truth at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 tells	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tells	advmod
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 truth	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 truth	amod
11	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 truth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	it					tell property	tree rules

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