Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Frost, part 49: the stepmother's daug…

Was the old man lowkey guilty, or just following orders?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lowkey guilty · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: old lowkey guilty, orders

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 guilty	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guilty	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guilty	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lowkey	compound
5	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guilty	compound
6	guilty	guilty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 following	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 following	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 following	advmod
10	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 guilty	acl
11	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 following	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 guilty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old lowkey guilty					tree rules
2	follow	gerund	the old lowkey guilty not said here	orders					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme

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

He was innocent

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	3 innocent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 innocent	cop
3	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					innocent property	tree rules

Option 2

He cried and then drove off quickly

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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drove	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 drove	advmod
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 drove	compound:prt
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 drove	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drive off	past	He not said here				then	quickly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He just obeyed his wife without a word

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	3 obeyed	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 obeyed	advmod
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 word	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past	He	his wife				without a word	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

Option 4

He fought back

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past	He						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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