Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest…

Was that linen actually fire or what, like compared to his brothers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: compare

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	was	ADP	_	3 linen	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 linen	det
3	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	obl
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 fire	advmod
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 linen	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 compared	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 compared	mark
10	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 what	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 brothers	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 compared	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	participle						to his brothers	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was way finer and whiter than theirs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 finer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 finer	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finer	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finer	obl:unmarked
6	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 whiter	cc
8	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 finer	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 theirs	case
10	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than theirs = they; way obl:unmarked; fine property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it was way finer and whiter than theirs and everybody noticed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 finer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 finer	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finer	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finer	obl:unmarked
6	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 whiter	cc
8	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 finer	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 theirs	case
10	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 whiter	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 noticed	cc
12	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 noticed	nsubj
13	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	way obl:unmarked; fine property	tree rules
2	be			than theirs = they	tree rules
3	notice	past	everybody		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, it was coarser than theirs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 coarser	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 coarser	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 coarser	cop
5	coarser	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 theirs	case
7	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coarser	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					than theirs = they; coarse property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it looked the same as theirs but smelled like pond water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 theirs	case
8	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 smelled	cc
10	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	compound
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it	the same				as theirs = they	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
2	smell	participle						like pond water	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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