Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

what did she warn him about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: warn · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 warn	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warn	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warn	nsubj
4	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warn	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	4 warn	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 warn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past · do-support	she		him = he				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

devils gonna tear him up into little pieces, dude, be careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tear	nsubj
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 tear	dep
3	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tear	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 tear	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pieces	amod
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tear	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dude	punct
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pieces	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 careful	punct
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 careful	cop
13	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear up	infinitive	devils	him = he				into little pieces and dude result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into piece=Result
2	is	infinitive	devils not said here					careful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

devils gonna tear him up, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tear	nsubj
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 tear	dep
3	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tear	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 tear	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tear	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear up	infinitive	devils	him = he				dude vocative	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

Option 3

devils gonna tear him up if he messes up, dude, so watch out

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tear	nsubj
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 tear	dep
3	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tear	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 tear	compound:prt
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 messes	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 messes	nsubj
8	messes	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tear	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 messes	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dude	punct
11	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 messes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watch	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 watch	advmod
14	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tear	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 watch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tear up	infinitive	devils	him = he	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme
2	mess up a condition, not said to happen	present	he	dude	tree rules
3	watch out	infinitive			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

devils gonna trick him, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trick	nsubj
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	1 devils	conj
3	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trick	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	infinitive	devils	him = he				dude obl	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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