Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

Did the girl just put her ear on the ground like a detective?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: put · To what, where: ear, ground

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 440 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a towel and a comb» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ear	nmod:poss
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 detective	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 detective	det
13	detective	detective	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	the girl	girl's ear		the ground		like a detective	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme on ground=Destination

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

Yep, that's how she spotted him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 how	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 how	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 how	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 spotted	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spotted	nsubj
7	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spotted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					how property	tree rules
2	spot	past	she		him = he				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

Option 2

Yep, that's how she heard the witch coming down the road at night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 how	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 how	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 how	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 witch	acl
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
2	hear	past	she	the witch			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
3	come down	gerund	the witch not said here	the road	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, that's how she heard her coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 how	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 how	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 how	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 coming	nmod:poss
9	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 heard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	that	how property	tree rules
2	hear	past	she		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	she not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nope, she hid behind a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she			a tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location

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