Test 13 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part…
Fam, what happens to Iwanich's head if he messes up?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: happen, mess up
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 6 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Iwanich | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | obl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 messes | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 messes | nsubj |
| 11 | messes | mess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happens | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 messes | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Fam | to Iwanich's head | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mess up a condition, not said to happen | present | Fam | 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
He is chained in the witch's tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chained | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chained | aux:pass |
| 3 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tower | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 witch | case |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chained | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chain | present · passive | He | the witch's tower | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It goes on a spike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 spike | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spike | det |
| 5 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | It | a spike | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spike=Location |
Option 3
He is thrown into the river to drown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrown | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrown | aux:pass |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrown | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drown | mark |
| 8 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thrown | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · passive | He | into the river result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into river=Result | ||||
| 2 | drown | to-infinitive | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
He loses his sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loses | nsubj |
| 2 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loses | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | He | his sword | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Eventuality |
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