Test 4 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the…

yo was the prince's ma cool with giving him up, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, give up · To what, where: ma, fr, yo

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 436 «Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the King opens the coffers and his son must be given up» 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	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cool	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ma	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ma	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 prince	case
6	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yo	nmod
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 giving	mark
9	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cool	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 giving	iobj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 giving	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fr	punct
13	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giving	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the prince's ma					tree rules
2	give up	gerund		fr	yo				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source

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

yes, they were happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					happy property	tree rules

Option 2

yes, they were happy about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					about it; happy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no, they all cried, they had no choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 choice	det
10	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	they	no choice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient

Option 4

no, the mum wanted to keep him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the mum						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mum not said here	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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