Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

Did she really give the Cat a lump of butter? Mad generous

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: give · To what, where: lump, Cat

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Did she really give the Cat a lump of butter?

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	4 give	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cat	det
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lump	det
8	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 butter	case
10	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lump	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	she	a lump of butter	the Cat				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient lump=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.

Sentence 2: Mad generous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 generous	amod
2	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, and then the Cat helped her escape from the witch's hut at night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 helped	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 helped	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 helped	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cat	det
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	nsubj
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helped	obj
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 helped	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 hut	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hut	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 witch	case
14	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the Cat	her = she			then		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	escape	infinitive	her = she not said here			the witch's hut	night		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hut=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yeah, and the Cat was so grateful it helped her out of the forest

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 grateful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grateful	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grateful	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cat	det
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grateful	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grateful	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 grateful	advmod
8	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 helped	nsubj
10	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grateful	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 helped	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 forest	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Cat					grateful property	tree rules
2	help	past	Cat		her = she	the forest			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and the Cat helped her out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 helped	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 helped	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cat	det
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helped	nsubj
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 helped	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 helped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	past	the Cat		her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 4

Yeah, and the Mouse ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mouse	det
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the Mouse						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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