Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

So what's Marusia's big problem at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big problem, end

This is test 12 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 problem	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 problem	obj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 problem	cop
4	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 problem	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Marusia	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 problem	amod
7	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 problem	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Marusia's big problem			at the end		tree rules

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 must go back to the church and confront him

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 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 confront	cc
9	confront	confront	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 confront	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	must	She					to the church result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to church=Result
2	confront	infinitive	She not said here	him = he					vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She must decide what to do

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 decide	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 decide	aux
3	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 decide	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	must	She						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 3

She must choose her husband

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 choose	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 choose	aux
3	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	must	She	her husband					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme

Option 4

She must decide what to do about the Fiend and her life

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 decide	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 decide	aux
3	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 decide	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 Fiend	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fiend	det
9	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 life	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Fiend	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	must	She						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive						about the Fiend and her life	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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