Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Y…
mad that Koshchei got cracked on the head, innit? what finished him?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: crack, innit, finish · To what, where: Koshchei, head
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 cracked | mark |
| 3 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cracked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cracked | aux:pass |
| 5 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 innit | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cracked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cracked | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 mad | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 mad | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 finished | nsubj |
| 13 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 mad | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 finished | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | past · passive | Koshchei | the head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | finish | past | Koshchei | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
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
his horse stomped on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stomped | nsubj |
| 3 | stomped | stomp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stomped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stomp | past | his horse | on him = he | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory |
Option 2
a club
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 club | det |
| 2 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
his horse kicked him, then a club
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicked | nsubj |
| 3 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kicked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 club | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 club | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 club | det |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | his horse | him = he | a club obl | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4
his horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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