Test 10 · ★ · Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza f…

ok real talk, why'd he leave the horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: leave · To what, where: horse

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1714 «Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza flies off, Iwanich lies to his father, and the beasts close in» 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 leave	advmod
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leave	nsubj
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 talk	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	he	the horse					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

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

horses cannot pass through the old forest at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pass	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pass	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pass	advmod
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forest	amod
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pass	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pass	can	horses			the old forest		at all	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location

Option 2

roots would trip it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trip	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trip	aux
3	trip	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	would	roots	it					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

the thorns would tear its legs and it would be lamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thorns	det
2	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tear	aux
4	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tear	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lamed	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lamed	nsubj:pass
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lamed	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 lamed	aux:pass
11	lamed	lame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	would	the thorns	its legs					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location leg=Theme
2	lame	would · passive		it					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

briers would trip it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	briers	brier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trip	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trip	aux
3	trip	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	would	briers	it					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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