Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part…

Mate, what did the witch's magic do to Iwanich?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, magic · What happens: do · To what, where: Iwanich

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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	8 magic	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Iwanich	case
11	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the witch's magic		Iwanich				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

Knocked him out with sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Knocked	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Knocked	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 sleep	case
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past		him = he				with sleep	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with sleep=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cast a heavy spell on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spell	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spell	amod
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cast	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	imperative	you not said here	a heavy spell				on him = he	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination

Option 3

Turned him into a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turned	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		him = he		a stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 4

Trapped him in a dream of the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trapped	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Trapped	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dream	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dream	det
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trapped	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dream	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	past		him = he		a dream of the forest			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in dream=Destination
2	dream			the forest					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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