Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

wait, who is the horse, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: horse

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 416 «Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha visits the Devil's palace and finds his drowned father there as a horse» 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	_	6 horse	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 horse	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horse	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
10	?	?	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 a	present		the horse					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 · ← Mova's choice

his drowned dad, the one who went to the tavern, that's dark

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dad	amod
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dad	appos
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 tavern	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tavern	det
11	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dark	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 dark	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dark	cop
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dad	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drown	participle					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the one		the tavern		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Initial_Location
3	is	present	his drowned dad	his drowned dad not said here		dark property	tree rules

Option 2

his drowned uncle, that's grim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 uncle	amod
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grim	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 uncle	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 grim	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grim	cop
7	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	his drowned uncle					grim property	tree rules

Option 3

his drowned dad, who got turned into a horse, that's really dark, bro

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dad	amod
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turned	nsubj
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux:pass
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dad	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dark	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 dark	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dark	cop
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 dark	advmod
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dad	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bro	punct
17	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dark	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drown	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past · passive		his drowned dad	into a horse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into horse=Result
3	is	present	his drowned dad	his drowned dad not said here	bro vocative; dark property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his drowned dad, that's dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dad	amod
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dark	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 dark	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	cop
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	his drowned dad					dark property	tree rules

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