Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 21: Ivan is slain…

lol the Baba Yaga's house had heads on sticks, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house · What happens: have · To what, where: heads, sticks

This is test 7 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 had	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Yaga	det
3	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Yaga	compound
4	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 house	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Yaga	case
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 sticks	case
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	7 had	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Baba Yaga's house	heads		sticks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, eleven heads and one empty stick, all facing the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heads	punct
3	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stick	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 stick	nummod
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heads	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 facing	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 facing	nsubj
11	facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stick	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 facing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	gerund	all	the road					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Destination

Option 2

yeah, twelve skulls on poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 skulls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 skulls	nummod
4	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 poles	case
6	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 skulls	nmod

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

Option 3

yeah, eleven heads on sticks and one empty stick waiting for Ivan's head

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heads	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stick	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 stick	nummod
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stick	amod
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sticks	conj
11	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stick	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 head	case
13	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Ivan	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	one empty stick not said here					for Ivan's head	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, eleven heads and one empty stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heads	punct
3	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 heads	nummod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stick	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 stick	nummod
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heads	conj

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

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