Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

Did the friends hype her up or try to chill her out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: hype up, try, chill out · To what, where: her

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 friends	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friends	det
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hype	nsubj
4	hype	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hype	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 hype	compound:prt
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hype	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 chill	mark
10	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chill	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 chill	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hype	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hype up	present	the friends	her = she	tree rules
2	try	infinitive	the friends not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chill out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the friends not said here	her = she	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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

They tried to hype her up and cheer her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hype	mark
4	hype	hype	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hype	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 hype	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cheer	cc
8	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hype	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cheer	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 cheer	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	past	They		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hype up not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	her = she	tree rules
3	cheer up	infinitive	They not said here	her = she	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

They wanted to go dancing and forget her grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 forget	cc
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grief	nmod:poss
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	They		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	dancing	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dancing=Theme
3	forget	infinitive	They not said here	her grief	tree rules

Option 3

They hyped her up lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hyped	nsubj
2	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hyped	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 hyped	compound:prt
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 hyped	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype up	past	They	her = she					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They felt sorry for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	They					for her = she; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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