Test 6 · ★ · Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell…

so the serpents bounced when the pig broke, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: serpents, pig · What happens: bounce, break

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1134 «Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell and the princess becomes human» 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 bounced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpents	det
3	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bounced	nsubj
4	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 broke	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pig	det
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bounced	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bounced	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bounced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	past	the serpents						tree rules
2	break	past	the pig						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Nah, they stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, they all stayed calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stayed	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they					all, calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, they stayed put

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they						tree rules
2	put	participle	they not said here						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they bolted hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bolted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bolted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolted	nsubj
4	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bolted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	they					hard property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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