Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden

bro, did she really make her hubby promise no church for four years?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, hubby · What happens: make, promise · To what, where: church

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 413 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hubby	nmod:poss
8	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	nsubj
9	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	xcomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 promise	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	she					bro vocative	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present	her hubby	no church			year		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent church=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

yep, she made him promise that and then he broke it the very next day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 broke	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 broke	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 broke	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broke	nsubj
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broke	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 next	advmod
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	promise	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary promise=Product
2	break	past	that	promise			then; day		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 2

yep, she made him swear it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	him = he not said here	it					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, that was her condition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 condition	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 condition	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 condition	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 condition	nmod:poss
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	her condition					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yep, she said he could not ask her to go to church for four years, no matter what

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ask	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 ask	advmod
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ask	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ask	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 church	case
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 matter	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 matter	det
19	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 matter	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not ask speech: ask	could	he	her = she			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		church	year	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

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