Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…

so who's the real MVP here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: real MVP

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 441 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying mother leaves a doll, and a stepmother makes Vasilissa work» 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	_	6 MVP	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 MVP	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 MVP	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 MVP	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 MVP	amod
6	MVP	mvp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 MVP	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 MVP	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the real MVP		here			tree rules

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 doll, obviously, it's carrying the whole story from start to finish

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doll	det
2	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doll	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 doll	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 carrying	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carrying	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 carrying	aux
8	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 doll	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 start	case
13	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 finish	mark
15	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 carrying	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · progressive	doll	the whole story		start			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent story=Theme from start=Initial_Location
2	finish	to-infinitive	doll not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

the stepmom, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmom	det
2	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 honestly	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stepmom	punct
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the doll, obviously, it's carrying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doll	det
2	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doll	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 doll	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doll	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carrying	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 carrying	aux
8	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · progressive	the doll						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the doll, obviously, it's carrying the whole household on its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doll	det
2	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 doll	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 doll	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 carrying	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carrying	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 carrying	aux
8	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 doll	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 household	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 household	amod
11	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present · progressive	doll	the whole household		doll's back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent household=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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