Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Princess Helena the Fair: Vanya wins t…

the older bros were so extra with the hair and mustache stuff, lmao

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older bros · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bros	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 bros	amod
3	bros	bro	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 extra	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 extra	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 extra	advmod
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hair	det
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 extra	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stuff	cc
11	mustache	mustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuff	compound
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hair	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lmao	punct
14	lmao	lmao	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the older bros					with the hair and mustache stuff and lmao; extra 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

nah, they weren't really into their looks, they only did it because the prayers were boring and long

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	13 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looks	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looks	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 looks	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	9 looks	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 looks	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 looks	nmod:poss
9	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 nah	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 did	advmod
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	obj
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 boring	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prayers	det
17	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 boring	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 boring	cop
19	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 did	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 long	cc
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	they		their looks		tree rules
2	do	past	looks = look	it			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	is	past	the prayers			boring property	tree rules
4	be		the prayers not said here				tree rules

Option 2

fr, they just wanted to look nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	fr					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	fr not said here					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, they were cool about it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cool	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cool	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cool	cop
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cool	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					about it; cool property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fr, they were way too into their looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 looks	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 looks	nmod:poss
9	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fr	way		their looks			tree rules

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