Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

Mate, so the witch told her daughter to scald her, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: tell, scald · To what, where: daughter, witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 414 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch's skin, and her body vanishes» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scald	mark
10	scald	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scald	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	6 told	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the witch		witch's daughter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	scald not said to happen	to-infinitive		witch					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, boiling water, no lukewarm stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
3	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuff	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 stuff	det
7	lukewarm	lukewarm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, lukewarm water, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
3	lukewarm	lukewarm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she said boiling water and no lukewarm stuff at all, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	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	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stuff	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 stuff	det
9	lukewarm	lukewarm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 stuff	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	boiling water and no lukewarm stuff at all and mate					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent water=Topic
2	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah, she said wash her in the lukewarm stuff from the pot, mate

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wash	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 stuff	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stuff	det
9	lukewarm	lukewarm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wash	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 pot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pot	det
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuff	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wash	infinitive	she not said here	her = she		the lukewarm stuff from the pot and mate			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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