Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith bur…

was the smith properly scared or just acting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smith · What happens: be, act

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 422 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith burns the seigneur, then the Demon saves him» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smith	det
3	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 acting	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 acting	advmod
8	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 scared	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the smith					properly, scared property	tree rules
2	act	gerund	the smith not said here						vn act-114-1-1 «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

Totally fine, just pretending to be scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 fine	advmod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pretending	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 pretending	advmod
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fine	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 scared	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 scared	cop
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						scared property	tree rules

Option 2

He was acting the whole time, pretending to be terrified for the lady's amusement

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 acting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 acting	aux
3	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pretending	punct
8	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 acting	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 terrified	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 terrified	cop
11	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pretending	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 amusement	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 amusement	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 lady	case
16	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 terrified	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · progressive	He	time		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pretend	gerund	He not said here			tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	He not said here		for the lady's amusement; terrified property	tree rules
4	amuse		the lady			nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Proper scared, like shaking-in-boots scared, and he was sweating buckets

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 buckets	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shaking	punct
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 shaking	mark
5	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 scared	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 boots	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
9	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shaking	obl
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shaking	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sweating	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sweating	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sweating	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sweating	aux
15	sweating	sweat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 buckets	amod
16	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund				boots			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boot=Location
2	sweat	past · progressive	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Proper scared, like shaking-in-boots scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shaking	punct
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 shaking	mark
5	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 scared	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 boots	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
9	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shaking	obl
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shaking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund				boots			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boot=Location

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