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Test 4 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daug…

The stepsisters were so mid, right? Like what did they even say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepsisters · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 457 «Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daughters freeze in the forest» 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

Sentence 1: The stepsisters were so mid, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepsisters	det
2	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mid	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mid	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 mid	advmod
5	mid	mid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mid	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	5 mid	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stepsisters					mid property	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.

Sentence 2: Like what did they even say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	stepsisters = stepsister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They just kept bickering all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bickering	bicker	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bickering	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They						tree rules
2	bicker	gerund	They not said here				day		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They just kept dissing each other and laughing at poor Marfa's new gifts all the way

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dissing	dis	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 dissing	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laughing	cc
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dissing	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	14 gifts	case
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Marfa	amod
11	Marfa	Marfa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gifts	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Marfa	case
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gifts	amod
14	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laughing	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 way	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They	all way					tree rules
2	dis	gerund	all way not said here	each					tree rules
3	laugh	gerund	all way not said here			poor Marfa's new gifts			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	gift		poor Marfa						nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

They just kept dissing each other, arguing about who would marry, and insulting Frost to his face

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dissing	dis	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 dissing	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 arguing	punct
8	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dissing	conj
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	12 marry	mark
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 marry	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 marry	aux
12	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 arguing	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Frost	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Frost	cc
15	insulting	insulting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Frost	amod
16	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They	insulting Frost				to his face	tree rules
2	dis	gerund	insulting Frost not said here	each					tree rules
3	argue speech: disagree	gerund	insulting Frost not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry	would							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They just kept dissing each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dissing	dis	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 dissing	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They						tree rules
2	dis	gerund	They not said here	each					tree rules

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