Test 3 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

Did the magic pipe actually work on Nina?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magic pipe · What happens: do, work · To what, where: magic pipe

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1907 «Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong man and are drowned themselves» 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	4 pipe	det
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pipe	compound
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pipe	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Nina	case
8	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the magic pipe					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Eventuality
2	work	present	the magic pipe not said here					on Nina; actually property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on nina=Theme

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

Yep, she sprang up alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sprang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprang	nsubj
4	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sprang	compound:prt
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sprang	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	she					alive property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, the pipe worked, but then she ran off to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pipe	det
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	nsubj
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 ran	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	the pipe						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run off	past	she				then	to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result

Option 3

Nope, she just lay there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	she			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, she stayed dead on the floor for three full days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she			the floor	day	dead property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

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