Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 24: Ivan…

Was Ivan well gutted when the hare did a runner?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: be, gut, do · To what, where: Ivan, runner

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Ivan	cop
2	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gutted	advmod
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 did	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hare	det
7	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 runner	det
10	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Ivan		tree rules
2	gut	participle · passive		Ivan	well property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	do	past	the hare	a runner		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=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

Yeah, he was well annoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 annoyed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 annoyed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 annoyed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 annoyed	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 annoyed	advmod
6	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					annoyed, well property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chuffed	aux:pass
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he was dead chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules
2	chuff	participle	he not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was dead upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 upset	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 upset	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 upset	amod
6	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					upset property	tree rules

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