Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

no cap, what did the horse do when it heard him coming?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, horse · What happens: do, hear, come · To what, where: horse

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 431 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan finds a horse, flings a rock, and reaches his mother» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obj
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 heard	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the horse	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	do	present	no cap		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	cap	horse	tree rules
4	come	gerund	horse not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «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

It bit the iron bars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bars	det
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bars	compound
5	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	It	the iron bars					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient

Option 2

It ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	It						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It neighed and kicked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 neighed	nsubj
2	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kicked	cc
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 neighed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	past	It						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kick	past							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	It						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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