Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daug…

Did the girls even listen to Frost, or were they salty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: do, listen, be

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 listen	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 listen	advmod
5	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Frost	case
7	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listen	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 salty	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 salty	cc
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 salty	cop
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 salty	nsubj
12	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	present	the girls	to Frost	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to frost=Theme
3	is	past	girls = girl	salty 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They were mega salty and rude to him, mocking his voice and refusing to say anything kind

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	4 salty	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 salty	cop
3	mega	mega	ADV	_	4 salty	advmod
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rude	cc
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salty	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rude	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mocking	punct
10	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 salty	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 voice	nmod:poss
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mocking	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 refusing	cc
14	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 mocking	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 refusing	xcomp
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 kind	compound
18	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			mega, salty property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here		him = he		tree rules
3	mock	gerund		his voice			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
4	refuse	gerund					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive		anything kind			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kind=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were mega salty and rude to him

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	4 salty	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 salty	cop
3	mega	mega	ADV	_	4 salty	advmod
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rude	cc
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salty	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 salty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They		him = he			mega, salty property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

Option 3

They were mega salty and rude to him, not even answering his questions at all

The tree, 15 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	4 salty	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 salty	cop
3	mega	mega	ADV	_	4 salty	advmod
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rude	cc
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salty	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rude	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answering	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 answering	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 answering	advmod
12	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 salty	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 questions	nmod:poss
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 answering	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 answering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	They				mega, salty property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here		him = he			tree rules
3	not answer speech: assert	gerund	They not said here	his questions		all		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
4	question		his = he					nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They were quiet and proud to him

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 quiet	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 proud	cc
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quiet	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					quiet property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here		him = he				tree rules

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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