Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

why'd the lady curse the rock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: curse · To what, where: rock

This is test 3 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 curse	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 curse	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curse	nsubj
5	curse	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rock	det
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curse	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 curse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	present	the lady	the rock					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=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 · ← Mova's choice

cause it was in her way, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	it			her way and dude			tree rules

Option 2

cause she tripped on it and fell right over, duh, so mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tripped	nsubj
3	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tripped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tripped	conj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 over	advmod
9	over	over	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 duh	punct
11	duh	duh	INTJ	_	7 fell	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mad	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 mad	advmod
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	cause	present				tree rules
2	trip	past	she	it		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
3	fall	past	she not said here		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause she tripped on it, duh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tripped	nsubj
3	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tripped	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cause	punct
7	duh	duh	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present							tree rules
2	trip	past	she			it			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

Option 4

cause she tripped on it while carrying water, and she was so mad about it, duh

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tripped	nsubj
3	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tripped	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 carrying	mark
7	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tripped	advcl
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mad	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mad	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 mad	advmod
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mad	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cause	punct
18	duh	duh	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	present					tree rules
2	trip	past	she		it		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
3	carry	gerund	she not said here	water			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	is	past	she			about water; mad property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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