Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…

dead serious, what did the canoe do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: canoe · What happens: do

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 444 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Ivashko's voice, but he tricks Alenka and escapes up an oak» 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	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serious	amod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 canoe	det
7	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 serious	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 serious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the canoe						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

floated all the way to the shore where parents waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 way	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl:unmarked
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 waited	advmod
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 waited	nsubj
10	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shore	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past		all way		the shore			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination
2	wait	past	parents						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

floated to the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 bank	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	participle				the bank			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

floated to the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 shore	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shore	det
4	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	participle				the shore			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination

Option 4

it turned around and went back to the witch's hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hut	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 witch	case
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	past	it					around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	go back	past						to the witch's hut result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result

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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