Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peas…

ok but why was the stone the trick?

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

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 why	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 why	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trick	det
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stone					why 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

it was too heavy for Woe to lift

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	4 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Woe	case
6	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heavy	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lift	mark
8	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heavy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for Woe; heavy property	tree rules
2	lift	to-infinitive							vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

it blocked the gold from Woe's sight

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 blocked	nsubj
2	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blocked	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 sight	case
6	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sight	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Woe	case
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past	it	the gold		Woe's sight			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer gold=Beneficiary from sight=Eventuality
2	sight		Woe						nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it was heavy and kept Woe trapped under it

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	3 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heavy	cop
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heavy	conj
6	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
7	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kept	xcomp
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			heavy property	tree rules
2	keep	past		Woe			tree rules
3	trap	participle	Woe not said here		it		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under it=Destination

Option 4

it was an enchanted stone that the merchants had buried there to keep Woe from ever leaving the plain

The tree, 19 words

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	5 stone	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stone	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
4	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stone	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 buried	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchants	det
8	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buried	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 buried	aux
10	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stone	advcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 buried	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 buried	advcl
14	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 leaving	mark
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 leaving	advmod
17	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 keep	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 plain	det
19	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	a enchanted stone			tree rules
3	bury	past · perfect · passive		the merchants	there		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive		Woe			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Theme
5	leave	gerund		the plain		ever	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Theme

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