Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko: swans and geese carry Ivashko…

lowkey the birds were kinda rude, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey birds · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 445 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko: swans and geese carry Ivashko home to his parents» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rude	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 rude	advmod
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rude	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	6 rude	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lowkey birds					kinda, rude property	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 right answer

Yeah, the first two flocks said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flocks	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 flocks	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flocks	nummod
6	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the first two flocks						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, the first two flocks totally refused to help him out at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 refused	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flocks	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 flocks	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flocks	nummod
6	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 refused	nsubj
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 refused	advmod
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refused	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 help	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the first two flocks					totally property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not help out	to-infinitive	the first two flocks not said here		him = he	all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 3

Yeah, the first flock refused him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 refused	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flock	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 flock	amod
5	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	nsubj
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the first flock	him = he					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the first two were fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 two	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fine	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first two					fine property	tree rules

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