Test 3 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasant, part 42: Martin's…

Sus, why did Martin ditch the silver?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: ditch · To what, where: silver

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1718 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasant, part 42: Martin's mother goes to the King to woo his daughter» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ditch	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ditch	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 ditch	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ditch	aux
5	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ditch	nsubj
6	ditch	ditch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 silver	det
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ditch	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ditch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	past · do-support	Sus	the silver					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 · ← Mova's choice

he feared it was cursed

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cursed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cursed	aux:pass
5	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	curse	past · passive		it					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he thought it was a trick

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trick	det
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a trick					tree rules

Option 3

he judged it a cheat

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 judged	nsubj
2	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 judged	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cheat	det
5	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 judged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	past	he	it					tree rules

Option 4

it was too heavy

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	4 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					heavy property	tree rules

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