Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an…

So what did he do when his hand was stuck?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, hand · What happens: do, be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stuck	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuck	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stuck	cop
10	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is	past	his hand					stuck 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 · ✓ the right answer

Hacked it clean off, mad respect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hacked	hack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hacked	obj
3	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hacked	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 clean	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 respect	punct
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 respect	amod
7	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hack	past		it				mad respect obl	tree rules
2	clean off	infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

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

Option 3

He sawed it off, pretty gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sawed	nsubj
2	sawed	saw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sawed	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 sawed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gross	punct
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 gross	advmod
7	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sawed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	saw off	past	He	it					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He cut it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	He	it					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality

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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