Test 7 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

Did the witch think the bridge was safe, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: witch, bridge · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safe	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 safe	cop
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 safe	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the witch						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the bridge					safe 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

She said it was a capital bridge and stepped on it without a second thought

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bridge	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bridge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
6	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bridge	amod
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stepped	cc
9	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stepped	obl
12	without	without	ADP	_	15 thought	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thought	det
14	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 thought	amod
15	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stepped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a capital bridge			tree rules
3	step	participle	She not said here		bridge	without a second thought	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She said it was a capital bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bridge	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bridge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
6	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bridge	compound
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a capital bridge					tree rules

Option 3

She said it was a fine bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bridge	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bridge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bridge	amod
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a fine bridge					tree rules

Option 4

She said it was a sturdy bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bridge	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bridge	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
6	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bridge	amod
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a sturdy bridge					tree rules

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