Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an…

No way, did his hand actually stick to the hatchet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: stick

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 450 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an old woman, loses his hand, and runs home» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	aux
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 stick	advmod
8	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hatchet	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hatchet	det
11	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past · do-support	no way					to the hatchet; actually property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to hatchet=Co-Patient

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

Nah, it's loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 loose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loose	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loose	cop
5	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					loose property	tree rules

Option 2

Yep, stuck tight, he couldn't break it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	9 break	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Yep	acl
4	tight	tight	ADV	_	3 stuck	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 break	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 break	advmod
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle						tight property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not break	could	he	it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, stuck fast, couldn't pull free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	8 pull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Yep	acl
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 stuck	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pull	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 pull	advmod
8	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pull	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle						fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not pull	could						free property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yep, glued on, couldn't let go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 glued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 let	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 glued	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 glued	punct
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	glue on	participle	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not let	could	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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