Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turn…

fr, what did the dad quit for good?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do, quit · To what, where: dad

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 417 «Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turns out to be his father» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quit	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 quit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the dad					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	quit	past	fr					for good	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

drinking spirits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		spirits					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient

Option 2

playing cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		cards					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme

Option 3

boasting about his horses at the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 horses	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horses	nmod:poss
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 boasting	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 fair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fair	det
7	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	gerund				the fair		about his horses	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about horse=Topic

Option 4

eating meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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