Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden

so the Fiend showed up at church, like out of nowhere?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fiend · What happens: show up · To what, where: church

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 showed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fiend	det
3	Fiend	Fiend	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 showed	nsubj
4	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 showed	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 church	case
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 showed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nowhere	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 nowhere	case
10	out	out	ADP	_	12 nowhere	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 nowhere	case
12	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 showed	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	past	the Fiend			church		nowhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at church=Location

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

nah, he was sitting by a window in the church and had come in with the guests

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	conj
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 guests	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 guests	det
18	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	he			the church		by a window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	come in	past · perfect	he not said here					with the guests	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he was sitting by a window in the church, staring at everyone during mass

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 staring	punct
13	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 everyone	case
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 staring	obl
16	during	during	ADP	_	17 mass	case
17	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	he			the church		by a window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	stare	gerund	he not said here				during mass	at everyone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at everyone=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, sitting by a window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						by a window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location

Option 4

nah, he came from the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he			the hall			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial_Location

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