Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…

so the mare ran him all over hills and ravines, was he scared or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mare, he · What happens: run, be · To what, where: him, hills

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mare	det
3	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 hills	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 hills	case
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ravines	cc
10	ravines	ravine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hills	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scared	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 scared	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scared	nsubj
14	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ran	advcl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 nah	cc
16	nah	nah	INTJ	_	14 scared	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the mare	him = he		hills and ravines			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme over hill=Trajectory
2	is	past	he					scared 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

yeah, super scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, he got thrown off quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 thrown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thrown	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thrown	aux:pass
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 thrown	compound:prt
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 thrown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw off	past · passive		he				quickly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he stuck on tight and held his ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
6	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuck	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 held	cc
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ground	nmod:poss
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick on	past	he					tight property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	hold	past	he not said here	his ground					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he was scared but hung on tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 hung	cc
7	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scared	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 tight	case
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	hang	participle	he not said here			tight			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tight=Location

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