Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Bride: Ivan gets t…

Why did Ivan dress up like a prince all of a sudden?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: dress up

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dress	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dress	aux
3	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dress	nsubj
4	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dress	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 prince	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dress	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 prince	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sudden	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sudden	det
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 all	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dress	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	past · do-support	Ivan					like a prince	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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

To scare off the brothers at the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	to-infinitive		the brothers		the church			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To make sure the king would see him at the wedding and give him the throne right away

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 wedding	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wedding	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 throne	det
16	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	right	right	ADV	_	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	13 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive					sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	see	would	the king	him = he		the wedding		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	give	infinitive		the throne	king		away property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient throne=Theme

Option 3

To show the old lady he's a real prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 prince	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 prince	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 prince	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prince	amod
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive			the old lady				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient
2	is a	present	he	a real prince					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To show the old lady who he really is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 is	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 is	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 is	advmod
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive			the old lady				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient
2	be	present	he	the old lady					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=Theme

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