Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…

Yo, so was Ivan a jerk to the Zluidni or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Ivan

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 Ivan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 Ivan	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ivan	cop
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jerk	det
7	jerk	jerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Ivan	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Zluidni	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Zluidni	det
10	Zluidni	Zluidni	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 jerk	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 Zluidni	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Ivan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Ivan					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

He chased them off the land

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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	He	them = they		the land			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme off land=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He made them swear an oath to the king

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 oath	det
6	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swear	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	them = they					tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	them = they not said here	a oath				to the king	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality

Option 3

He sent them to the mill

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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	He	them = they		the mill			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to mill=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He tricked them into the river

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 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	He	them = they				into the river result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into river=Result

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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