Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…

how did the soldier even know the witch was gonna come at midnight?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier, witch · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 know	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	cop
10	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 know	ccomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 midnight	case
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the soldier						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	past	the witch				midnight	come 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

grandpa said it was her usual hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hour	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hour	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hour	nmod:poss
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hour	amod
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	grandpa						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	her usual hour					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he heard it from the village folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 folk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 folk	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 folk	compound
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	it		the village folk			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from folk=Source

Option 3

grandpa told him it was her usual time, so he waited by the window all evening

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grandpa	grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 time	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	cop
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 time	nmod:poss
7	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waited	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 waited	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 waited	nsubj
12	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 window	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waited	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 evening	det
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waited	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	grandpa		him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	past	it	her usual time				tree rules
3	wait	past	grandpa			evening	by the window	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by window=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

grandpa told him it was her usual time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grandpa	grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 time	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	cop
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 time	nmod:poss
7	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	grandpa		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	it	her usual time					tree rules

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