Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…

bruh, so the priest's son just stared at the witch all night and didn't blink?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: son · What happens: stare, not blink

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 469 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1: a priest's son outwits a witch princess, then a soldier is warned about a merchant's daughter» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	9 stared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 stared	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 priest	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stared	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 stared	advmod
9	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 witch	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stared	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stared	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 blink	cc
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 blink	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 blink	advmod
18	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stared	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 stared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	the priest's son				night	at the witch	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at witch=Theme
2	not blink	past · do-support	the priest's son not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, he turned round once, ngl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 turned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ngl	punct
8	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	he	ngl				once, round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, he kept reading fr, never looked back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 looked	advmod
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	he		tree rules
2	read	gerund	he not said here	fr	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fr=Topic
3	not look back	past	he not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

yeah, he blinked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blinked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blinked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blinked	nsubj
4	blinked	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	past	he						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, he peeked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 peeked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 peeked	nsubj
4	peeked	peek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peek	past	he						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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