Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…

Bro, why'd Ivan even go back to the old house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: go back

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 453 «Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks the Zluidni into the river, and Friday punishes a spinner» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	would	Ivan					to the old house result; Bro vocative	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result

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

To steal his father's axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 steal	mark
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 axe	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 father	case
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	to-infinitive		his father's axe					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location axe=Theme

Option 2

To grab his old boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grab	mark
2	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 boots	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boots	amod
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	to-infinitive		his old boots					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme

Option 3

To pray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pray	mark
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	to-infinitive							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To grab his mill-stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 grab	mark
2	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stones	nmod:poss
4	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stones	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 mill	punct
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	to-infinitive		his mill stones					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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