Test 2 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

Mate, why'd the mares keep legging it every morning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mares · What happens: keep, leg · To what, where: Mate

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1515 «Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga and rescues his bride» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mares	det
6	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	conj
8	legging	leg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 legging	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 legging	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the mares						tree rules
2	leg	gerund	the mares not said here	Mate			morning		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

They got scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They kicked up dust and fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 kicked	compound:prt
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fled	cc
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick up	past	They	dust					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
2	flee	past	They not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They cocked their tails and bolted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cocked	nsubj
2	cocked	cock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tails	nmod:poss
4	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cocked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bolted	cc
6	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cocked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cock	past	They	their tails					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	bolt	participle	They not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	They						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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