Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peas…

ok so the peasant was like a fish in ice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peasant · What happens: be · To what, where: ice

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 451 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peasant buries Woe under a stone» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	8 fish	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 fish	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fish	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 fish	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the peasant			ice		like a fish	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

yeah, he fought hard and escaped at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fought	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 escaped	cc
7	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 escaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he					hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	escape	past	he not said here			last			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nope, he escaped quickly by riding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 escaped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 escaped	nsubj
4	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 escaped	advmod
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 riding	mark
7	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 escaped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	he					quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	gerund	he not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nope, he got out easily with a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 rope	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rope	det
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past	he					with a rope; easily, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he struggled and got nowhere fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 struggled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 struggled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struggled	nsubj
4	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struggled	conj
7	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 got	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	he						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	he not said here					fast, nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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