Test 3 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest…

Did the guards actually catch the twins at the gate, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guards · What happens: do, catch · To what, where: twins, gate

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 catch	advmod
5	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 twins	det
7	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catch	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	present	the guards	the twins		the gate		actually property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent twin=Theme at gate=Asset

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

Yeah, the guards caught them right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the guards	them = they				away property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, they got caught at the gate and dragged back in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dragged	cc
10	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 dragged	advmod
12	in	in	ADV	_	10 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		they		the gate			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at gate=Asset
2	drag back	past							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nope, the guards chased them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chased	nsubj
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chased	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 chased	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	past	the guards	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, they got past them like quicksilver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	7 like	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	advcl
8	quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get past	past	they						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	like	present	them = they	quicksilver					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot quicksilver=Theme

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