Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Why did the old woman cry all night, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: cry

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 432 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan wins Koshchei's death and brings the ring home» 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	6 cry	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	nsubj
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	the old woman				night	mate vocative	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

'Cos she missed her son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 missed	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 missed	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 missed	nsubj
4	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	she	her son					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus

Option 2

'Cos she feared the King's anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 feared	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 anger	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she	the King's anger					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anger=Stimulus
2	anger		the King						nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

'Cos she feared losing her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 feared	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 feared	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	gerund	she not said here	her head					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

Option 4

'Cos she feared losing her head to the King's guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 losing	punct
2	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 feared	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 losing	aux
5	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 losing	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 guards	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 guards	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past		her head				to the King's guards	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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