Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

So the hunter kept leaving marks on the trees, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hunter · What happens: keep, leave · To what, where: marks, trees

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunter	det
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaving	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaving	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the hunter						tree rules
2	leave	gerund	the hunter not said here	marks		the trees			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on tree=Location

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

Nah, he was actually leaving marks so the dog could follow him home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 leaving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leaving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leaving	aux
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 leaving	advmod
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaving	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 follow	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 follow	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 follow	aux
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 leaving	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 follow	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 follow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · progressive	he	marks				actually property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
2	follow	could	the dog	him = he				home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was like tracking his way out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tracking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tracking	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tracking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tracking	aux
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 tracking	mark
6	tracking	track	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tracking	obj
9	out	out	ADV	_	6 tracking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	track out	past · progressive	he	his way				out property	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was like leaving a trail so he could find the way out later

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 leaving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leaving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leaving	aux
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 leaving	mark
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trail	det
8	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaving	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 find	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 leaving	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
15	out	out	ADV	_	12 find	advmod
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · progressive	he	a trail					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme
2	find out	could	he	the way				late, out property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 4

Nah, he was just bored and whittling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 bored	advmod
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 whittling	cc
8	whittling	whittle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bored	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules
2	whittle	gerund	he not said here						vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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