Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the y…

Was the hill easy to climb, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hill · What happens: be, climb · To what, where: bro

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 459 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the youngest prince tricks Vikhor and frees his mother» 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	4 easy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hill	det
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 easy	nsubj
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	csubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climb	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hill					easy property	tree rules
2	climb	to-infinitive		bro					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bro=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

No, it was pretty muddy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 muddy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 muddy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 muddy	cop
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 muddy	advmod
6	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, steep hill, took forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hill	punct
3	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hill	amod
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hill	punct
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	steep hill					forever property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, actually, the hill was short and the path was flat the whole way, no cap, bro

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 short	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 short	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 actually	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 short	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 short	cop
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flat	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flat	cop
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 short	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flat	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 cap	det
19	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 short	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bro	punct
21	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hill					actually, short property	tree rules
2	is	past	the path					the whole way obl:unmarked; flat property	tree rules

Option 4

No, it was a steep hill and we had to stop to rest a lot, fr

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 hill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hill	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hill	det
6	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hill	amod
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hill	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rest	mark
14	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stop	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lot	det
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rest	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fr	punct
18	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a steep hill and fr	tree rules
2	have	past	we		tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive	we not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	rest	to-infinitive	we not said here	a lot	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=Theme

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