Test 4 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

How'd the snakes get in when the door was barred?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: snakes · What happens: get in, bar · To what, where: door

This is test 4 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snakes	det
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 barred	advcl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 barred	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 barred	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 barred	aux:pass
11	barred	bar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 barred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	would	the snakes						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	bar	past · passive		the door					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer

They smashed the window, dead lively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	nsubj
2	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smashed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 smashed	punct
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lively	amod
7	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smashed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	They	the window					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme

Option 2

They slid under the step, dead quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slid	nsubj
2	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 step	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 step	det
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slid	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 step	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 quick	amod
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	past	They					under the step	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under step=Trajectory

Option 3

They smashed the window, dead lively, right through the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	nsubj
2	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smashed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lively	punct
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lively	amod
7	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smashed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glass	punct
9	right	right	ADV	_	12 glass	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 glass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 glass	det
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	They	the window		the glass			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent window=Theme through glass=Destination

Option 4

They pushed the door open slowly, dead lively, and slithered in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obj
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pushed	xcomp
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 pushed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lively	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lively	amod
9	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pushed	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slithered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slithered	cc
12	slithered	slither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pushed	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	12 slithered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	They	the door				open, slowly property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
2	slither	past	They not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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