Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

Dude, who did the demon want to chomp on at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, demon · What happens: do, want, chomp on

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 418 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon from a pit and cures the town» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 demon	det
6	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chomp	mark
9	chomp	chomp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 chomp	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chomp	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past	Dude		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the demon		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	chomp on not said to happen	to-infinitive	the demon not said here	at the end	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at end=Patient

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

The peasant, if he cured her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cured	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cured	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 cured	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cured	nsubj
6	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	past	the peasant	her = she					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The peasant, if he didn't cure her daughter in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cure	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 cure	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cure	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cure	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cure	advmod
8	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 peasant	acl:relcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cure	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cure	past · do-support	peasant	her daughter			time		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer daughter=Source

Option 3

The Boyar's whole family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boyar	det
2	Boyar	Boyar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 family	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Boyar	case
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 family	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The peasant, if he failed to cure her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 failed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 failed	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 failed	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 failed	nsubj
6	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cure	mark
8	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 failed	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	the peasant						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not cure	to-infinitive	the peasant not said here	her = she					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source

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