Test 10 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…
When Osip popped his head up, what happened, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Osip · What happens: pop up, happen · To what, where: head
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 popped | advmod |
| 2 | Osip | Osip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 popped | nsubj |
| 3 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 popped | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 popped | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | vocative |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop up | past | Osip | Osip's head | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | bruv vocative | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
She drowned him, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drowned | nsubj |
| 2 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drowned | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drowned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | She | him = he | bruv obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She chopped it right off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chopped | nsubj |
| 2 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chopped | obj |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 off | advmod |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 chopped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | past | She | it | off property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3
She chopped it right off with one swing of the axe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chopped | nsubj |
| 2 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chopped | obj |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 off | advmod |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 chopped | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 swing | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 swing | nummod |
| 8 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chopped | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 axe | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 axe | det |
| 11 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swing | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | past | She | it | with one swing of the axe; off property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with swing=Instrument | |||
| 2 | swing | the axe | nom swing «state intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 4
She threw him in, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 threw | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | She | him = he | mate vocative | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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