Test 10 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest…
Who was the emperor's wife, and was she chill about the boys?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: wife
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1803 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest son's frog spins his linen» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wife | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 emperor | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chill | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chill | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chill | cop |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chill | nsubj |
| 11 | chill | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wife | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 boys | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boys | det |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chill | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the emperor's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | wife | about the boys; chill property | 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
The sister, and she was not happy with the boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 boys | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boys | det |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the sister | with the boys; happy property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The empress, and she was not happy with the singing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 empress | det |
| 2 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 singing | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 singing | det |
| 11 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the empress | with the singing; happy property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The empress, and she was delighted by the boys and gave them each a gold ring
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 empress | det |
| 2 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 delighted | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 empress | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 boys | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 delighted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 delighted | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 ring | det |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ring | det |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ring | compound |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | empress | by the boys; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the empress | each gold ring | boys = boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient ring=Theme |
Option 4
The empress, and she was pleased with the singing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 empress | det |
| 2 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleased | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleased | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | cop |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 empress | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 singing | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 singing | det |
| 10 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleased | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | empress | with the singing; pleased property | tree rules |
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