Test 1 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

Mate, the snake wants to wed her for her shift, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: snake · What happens: want, wed, shift · To what, where: snake

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wed	mark
7	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wed	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 shift	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shift	nmod:poss
11	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wants	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	the snake		Mate vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	wed not said to happen	to-infinitive	the snake not said here	snake	for snake's shift	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	shift		snake			nom shift «event transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he won't give it back till she says yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 says	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	advcl
12	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give back	future	he	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yep, he won't give it back till she says yes to marrying him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 says	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 says	ccomp
13	to	to	SCONJ	_	14 marrying	mark
14	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 says	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 marrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not give back	future	he	it	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	marry	gerund	she not said here	him = he	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Nah, she already said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 4

Yep, he wants her to wed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wed	mark
7	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he	her = she					tree rules
2	wed not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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