Test 2 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

Wait, her ma thought it was all pants talk, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ma · What happens: wait, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ma	nmod:poss
4	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	cop
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 pants	det
9	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 talk	nsubj
10	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	her ma		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	past	ma	talk property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she called it nonsense and binned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 binned	cc
8	binned	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 binned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	bin	past	she not said here	nonsense					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she was really worried, took it seriously and went to the dike

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 worried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worried	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worried	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 worried	advmod
6	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worried	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obj
10	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	8 took	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 dike	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dike	det
15	dike	dike	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			worried property	tree rules
2	take	past		it		seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	go	past			the dike		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dike=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yeah, she told her to shush off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shush	mark
7	shush	shush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 shush	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	shush off not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she called it nonsense and told the girl to stop talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
13	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	past	she	it		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here		the girl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	talk	gerund	she not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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