Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Princess Helena the Fair: Vanya wins t…

fr, did Helena pick Vanya in his raggedy coat or his fancy outfit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helena · What happens: pick · To what, where: fr, raggedy coat

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 466 «Russian Folk-Tales, Princess Helena the Fair: Vanya wins the princess on his dead father's magic horse» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pick	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pick	aux
4	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pick	nsubj
5	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Vanya	Vanya	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pick	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 coat	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 coat	nmod:poss
9	raggedy	raggedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coat	amod
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pick	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 outfit	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 outfit	nmod:poss
13	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 outfit	amod
14	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coat	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past · do-support	Helena	fr		Helena's raggedy coat or Helena's fancy outfit			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanya=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

the raggedy coat, he was in plain clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coat	det
2	raggedy	raggedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coat	amod
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clothes	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 clothes	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 clothes	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 clothes	case
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clothes	amod
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 coat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			plain clothes			tree rules

Option 2

the fancy outfit he was wearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outfit	det
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 outfit	amod
3	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wearing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wearing	aux
6	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 outfit	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past · progressive	he	the fancy outfit not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent outfit=Source

Option 3

the fancy outfit, he dressed up in silk and gold before the gathering so she would notice him

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outfit	det
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 outfit	amod
3	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 outfit	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dressed	nsubj
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 dressed	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 silk	case
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gold	cc
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silk	conj
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 gathering	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gathering	det
14	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 notice	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 notice	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 notice	aux
18	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dressed	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	past	the fancy outfit			silk and gold	before the gathering		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	notice	would	she	outfit					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the shiny coat from the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coat	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coat	amod
3	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coat	nmod

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

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