Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Bride: Ivan gets t…
So that tress of hair, it floats down the river, right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hair · What happens: float · To what, where: river
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 433 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Bride: Ivan gets to the church first and marries the bride» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 floats | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 3 tress | mark |
| 3 | tress | tress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floats | advcl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hair | case |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tress | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tress | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 floats | nsubj |
| 8 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floats | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 floats | punct |
| 13 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 8 floats | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 floats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | hair | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=Trajectory |
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
Yup, it floats right to the King, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yup | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 floats | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fam | punct |
| 10 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Yup | to the King and fam result; right property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to king=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yup, it goes straight to the King, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yup | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fam | punct |
| 10 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Yup | to the King and fam; straight property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Yup, it floats to the Queen, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yup | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fam | punct |
| 9 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Queen | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Yup | to the Queen result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to queen=Result |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nope, it floats down the river and sinks, but a fish swallows it and then the King catches the fish, fam
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 floats | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sinks | cc |
| 9 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 floats | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swallows | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 swallows | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swallows | nsubj |
| 14 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 floats | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swallows | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 catches | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 catches | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 catches | nsubj |
| 20 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 swallows | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fish | det |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 catches | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fam | punct |
| 24 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fish | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | it | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | sink | present | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | swallow | present | a fish | river | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | catch | present | the King | the fish and fam | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
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