Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

Why'd Marusia use a thread, like a total detective?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marusia · What happens: use · To what, where: thread

This is test 2 · ★ 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 use	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thread	det
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 detective	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 detective	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 detective	det
10	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 detective	amod
11	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	Marusia	a thread				like a total detective	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=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 · ← Mova's choice

To make sure she could get home safely in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	ccomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive						sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	get	could	she			the dark		home, safely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

To tie her hair back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tie	mark
2	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tie	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 tie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie back	to-infinitive		her hair					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 3

To mark the path home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	2 mark	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	to-infinitive		the path				home property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent path=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To track where he lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 track	mark
2	track	track	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 lived	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 track	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	track	to-infinitive							vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	live	past	he						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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