Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

Dude, the Leshy's stone dead and the girl's crying, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: cry

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 455 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Leshy	det
4	Leshy	Leshy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stone	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Leshy	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crying	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crying	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 girl	case
12	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	7 dead	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry		the girl						nom crying «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Nah, she was singing to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 singing	aux
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	she		him = he				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was bawling over him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bawling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bawling	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bawling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bawling	aux
5	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bawling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bawl speech: other	past · progressive	she					over him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, she's sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sleeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleeping	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive	she						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, she was yelling at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 yelling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yelling	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yelling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 yelling	aux
5	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past · progressive	she					at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus

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