Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

did the snuff-box really turn black?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snuff box · What happens: turn

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 429 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain and revived, then tricks the Baba Yaga's mares and is helped by the creatures he spared» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snuff	punct
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 turn	advmod
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turn	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · do-support	the snuff box					black property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

nope, it just went a bit grey and that meant Ivan was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grey	obl:unmarked
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meant	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sleeping	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sleeping	aux
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past	it	grey property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	past	that		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	past · progressive	Ivan		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, it meant Marya was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Marya	Marya	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meant	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Marya					dead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, that meant Ivan was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meant	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	that						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Ivan					dead property	tree rules

Option 4

nope, that meant Ivan was alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 alive	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alive	cop
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meant	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	that						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Ivan					alive 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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