Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…

be real, why was Marya scared to go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, go

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 430 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga, rescues Marya, and burns Koshchei» 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 scared	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
6	Marya	Marya	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 scared	compound
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 real	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scared	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	real property	tree rules
2	is	past	you not said here	scared property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

cause he's scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scary	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scary	cop
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	he					scary property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause Koshchei might catch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	catch	might	Koshchei	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

cause Ivan would get caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	catch	would · passive		Ivan					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

cause the Baba Yaga is near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 near	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 near	cop
6	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	the Baba Yaga					near property	tree rules

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