Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 39: Iwanich…

wait, why did the witch need a servant?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, need · To what, where: servant

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1715 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 39: Iwanich frees a hare, breaks a forbidden door and becomes a witch's servant» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 need	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	you not said here	a servant					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot servant=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 · ✓ the right answer

to lead her horses out to the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 lead	mark
2	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horses	nmod:poss
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lead	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 lead	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fields	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead out	to-infinitive		her horses		the fields		out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to field=Destination

Option 2

to milk her goats each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 goats	mark
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goats	compound
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 goats	nmod:poss
4	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goats	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

to lead her horses out to the fields every morning and bring them back at night

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 lead	mark
2	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horses	nmod:poss
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lead	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 lead	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fields	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lead	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lead	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bring	cc
12	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 lead	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead out	to-infinitive		her horses		the fields	morning	out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to field=Destination
2	bring back	infinitive		horses = horse			night		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to lead all her horses and goats out to the fields and watch over the whole farm

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 lead	mark
2	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 horses	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horses	nmod:poss
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lead	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 goats	cc
7	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	conj
8	out	out	ADV	_	2 lead	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 fields	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fields	det
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lead	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watch	cc
13	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 lead	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 farm	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 farm	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 farm	amod
17	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	to-infinitive		her horses and goats		the fields		out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to field=Destination
2	watch	infinitive				the whole farm			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over farm=Location

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