Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

why did the mares keep running off, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mares · What happens: keep, run off

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 keep	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mares	det
4	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 running	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 running	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the mares						tree rules
2	run off	gerund	the mares not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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

the flies bit them badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flies	det
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bit	obj
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 bit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the flies	them = they				badly property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

they were scared of the birds and the flies and the boy's loud shouting

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 birds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flies	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flies	det
9	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 birds	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shouting	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shouting	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 boy	case
14	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shouting	amod
15	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					of the birds and the flies and the boy's loud shouting; scared property	tree rules
2	shout		the boy						nom shouting «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they were scared of the birds and the flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 birds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flies	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flies	det
9	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 birds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					of the birds and the flies; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

they were chased by wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chased	aux:pass
3	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · passive	wolves	they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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