Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

Mate, who even is Need in them Tula bits?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 452 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brother drowns Woe, then Need, Kruchina and the Zluidni turn up in other tales» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bits	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bits	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	6 Need	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Need	cop
6	Need	Need	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 who	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 who	obl
9	Tula	Tula	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bits	compound
10	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mate	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Need					tree rules
2	bit		Mate and Tula bits						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

Nuzhda, the same sort of misery as Woe, but kept in a horse's head

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuzhda	Nuzhda	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sort	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sort	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sort	amod
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nuzhda	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 misery	case
7	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 Woe	case
9	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nuzhda	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 head	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 horse	case
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		Nuzhda not said here		a horse's head			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in head=Location
2	sort			misery				as Woe	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient as=obl

Option 2

Nuzhda, the same sort of misery as Woe, the brothers' spirit from Tula

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuzhda	Nuzhda	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sort	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sort	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sort	amod
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nuzhda	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 misery	case
7	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 Woe	case
9	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spirit	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brothers	det
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spirit	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 brothers	case
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nuzhda	appos
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 Tula	case
16	Tula	Tula	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spirit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			misery				as Woe	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient as=obl

Option 3

Nuzhda, a goblin who lives in a house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuzhda	Nuzhda	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goblin	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goblin	det
4	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nuzhda	appos
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lives	nsubj
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goblin	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a goblin			a house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nuzhda, the same sort of misery as Woe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuzhda	Nuzhda	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sort	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sort	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sort	amod
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nuzhda	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 misery	case
7	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 Woe	case
9	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			misery				as Woe	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient as=obl

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