Test 5 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan…

wait, what did the first spring do to the stick?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1133 «Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, and the brothers meet again» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 stick	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stick	det
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support						to the stick	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 · ✓ the right answer

It burned up like it was on fire

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	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 burned	compound:prt
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 fire	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fire	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fire	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 fire	case
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	past	It						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	it					like fire	tree rules

Option 2

It went up

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	It						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It turned to black ash slowly

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	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 ash	case
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ash	amod
5	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It			black ash		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ash=Trajectory

Option 4

It was eaten by the flame

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	3 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 flame	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flame	det
6	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive	the flame	It					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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