Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part…

Like, what did the witch want the horses doing in the clouds?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch, horses · What happens: do, want · To what, where: horses, clouds

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horses	det
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	obj
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 horses	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 clouds	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clouds	det
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 doing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	want	present	the witch	the horses		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme
3	do	gerund	the horses not said here		the clouds	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Hiding till she called

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 called	csubj
2	till	till	ADP	_	3 she	case
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hiding	obl
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund					till she		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call speech: assert	past	Hiding						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Hiding quietly until the dawn came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	csubj
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Hiding	advmod
3	until	until	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dawn	det
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund					dawn	quietly property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Hiding						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Grazing in the meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 meadow	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meadow	det
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grazing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	gerund				the meadow			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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