Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

Wait, so was the body still there at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, body · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: end

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Wait	parataxis
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the body				at the end; still	there property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it had vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vanished	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vanished	aux
5	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect · passive		it					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it was carried off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	aux:pass
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 carried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past · passive		it					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the demons had hidden it under the stove and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 hidden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 demons	det
4	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hidden	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hidden	aux
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hidden	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 stove	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stove	det
10	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hidden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · passive		the demons		the stove			tree rules
2	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it was still there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				still	there property	tree rules

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