Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

Why'd Marusia run to her friends after her mom died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marusia, mom · What happens: run, die

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 412 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thread to a church, sees her sweetheart's terrible secret, and learns that her parents will die» 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	4 run	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 run	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 friends	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friends	nmod:poss
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 died	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mom	nmod:poss
10	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 run	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	Marusia					to Marusia's friends result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to friend=Result
2	die	past	Marusia's mom						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

She was looking for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	She					for food	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was scared to be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 alone	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 alone	cop
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scared	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					scared property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	She not said here					alone property	tree rules

Option 3

She had been sent by her mother to the priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 priest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 priest	det
10	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive	her mother	She		the priest			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to priest=Destination

Option 4

She could not stand the empty house at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	could	She	the empty house			night		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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