Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest…

Why did the youngest brother cry by the pond in the first place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: youngest brother · What happens: cry · To what, where: first place

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cry	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	nsubj
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 pond	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	the youngest brother			the first place		by the pond	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pond=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

He had no girl to spin his skein

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spin	mark
6	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 skein	nmod:poss
8	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no girl					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
2	spin	to-infinitive	He not said here	his skein					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skein=Theme

Option 2

He had been mocked by the girls and had no one to spin his skein for him

The tree, 17 words

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	4 mocked	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mocked	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 mocked	aux:pass
4	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 girls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girls	det
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mocked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mocked	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 spin	mark
13	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 skein	nmod:poss
15	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spin	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mock	past · perfect · passive	the girls	He		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	have	past	the girls not said here	no one		tree rules
3	spin	to-infinitive	no one not said here	his skein	for him = he	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent skein=Result for he=Beneficiary

Option 3

He had no girl willing to spin his skein of flax

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spin	mark
7	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skein	nmod:poss
9	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spin	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 flax	case
11	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skein	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no girl				willing property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
2	spin	to-infinitive	no girl not said here	his skein of flax					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skein=Theme

Option 4

He had no girl to weave his skein

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weave	mark
6	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 skein	nmod:poss
8	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no girl					tree rules
2	weave	to-infinitive	no girl not said here	his skein					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skein=Product

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