Test 3 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

Was Ivan well gutted when the witch threatened his noggin?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: witch · What happens: be, gut, threaten · To what, where: Ivan, noggin

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Ivan	cop
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gutted	advmod
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 threatened	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threatened	nsubj
8	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 noggin	nmod:poss
10	noggin	noggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threatened	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Ivan		tree rules
2	gut	participle · passive		Ivan	well property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	threaten	past	the witch	Ivan's noggin		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus noggin=Experiencer

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, he sat down and wept like a little kid in the corner of the yard

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wept	cc
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 kid	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kid	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kid	amod
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wept	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 corner	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 corner	det
14	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kid	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 yard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yard	det
17	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 corner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	he not said here					like a little kid in the corner of the yard	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he sat and cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he laughed at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he					at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he sat down and wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wept	cc
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	he not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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