Test 3 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Dragon Emperor, part 11: the prin…

Wait, the fish wanted to go back in the river, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, fish · What happens: wait, want, go back · To what, where: river

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1760 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Dragon Emperor, part 11: the prince frees a fish, a fox and a wolf, then serves the old woman» 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	_	5 wanted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	the fish		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fish not said here	the river	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

Nah, it was happy to stay in his bucket for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bucket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bucket	nmod:poss
10	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 while	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 while	det
13	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					happy property	tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive				his bucket	while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bucket=Location

Option 2

Yeah, it wanted food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was flapping about, begging him to chuck it back in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 flapping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flapping	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flapping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flapping	aux
5	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 flapping	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begging	punct
8	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 flapping	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begging	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 chuck	mark
11	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begging	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chuck	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 chuck	advmod
14	in	in	ADV	_	11 chuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	flap	past · progressive	it			about property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	gerund			him = he		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	chuck back not said to happen	to-infinitive		it			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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