Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise,…

So was the Eagle getting revenge or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eagle · What happens: get · To what, where: revenge

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 435 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, part 27: a wife's curse on her children, then a King and an Eagle» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 getting	nsubj
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 getting	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	the Eagle	revenge					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revenge=Stimulus

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

nah, for a random thing, bare proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 thing	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bare	punct
8	bare	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	parataxis
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 bare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	infinitive						properly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

yeah, it was payback for something ages ago, proper bare, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 payback	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 payback	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 payback	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 payback	cop
5	payback	payback	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 ages	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 ages	compound
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 payback	nmod
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 ages	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bare	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bare	amod
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 payback	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bruv	punct
14	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 payback	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	payback and bruv			for something ages		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, for the old score, bare proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 score	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 score	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 score	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 score	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 score	amod
6	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bare	punct
8	bare	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 score	parataxis
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 bare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	infinitive						properly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he was getting back at the King for the old score, bare proper

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 getting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 getting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 score	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 score	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 score	amod
13	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bare	punct
15	bare	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 getting	conj
16	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past · progressive	he					at the King; for the old score; properly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for score=Source
2	bear	infinitive	he not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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