Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the y…

Which bro was the real hero, the littlest one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: real hero

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bro	det
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hero	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hero	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hero	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hero	amod
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	littlest	little	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hero	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which bro	the real hero and the littlest one					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

Vasily, the youngest, who hid behind the cushions and grabbed the finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vasily	vasily	ADV	_	7 hid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Vasily	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youngest	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 hid	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hid	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hid	nsubj
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 cushions	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cushions	det
10	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hid	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grabbed	cc
12	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hid	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 finger	det
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the youngest			the cushions		vasily property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind cushion=Location
2	grab	past	the youngest not said here	the finger					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The littlest one, Vasily, who did the whole thing alone, no cap, fr

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	littlest	little	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
5	Vasily	vasily	ADV	_	8 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 did	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fr	punct
17	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the littlest one and no cap and fr	the whole thing				alone, vasily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 3

Dmitri, the middle one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dmitri	Dmitri	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dmitri	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Vasily, the youngest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vasily	vasily	ADV	_	4 youngest	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Vasily	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youngest	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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