Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…

that circle thing with the knife, was it just a joke or did it actually work?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: circle thing, thing · What happens: be, work · To what, where: joke

This is test 4 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thing	det
2	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 knife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 joke	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 joke	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 joke	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 joke	det
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 work	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 work	aux
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 work	nsubj
16	actually	actually	ADV	_	17 work	advmod
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 joke	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that circle thing with the knife	a joke					tree rules
2	work	past · do-support	thing					actually property	vn employment-95.3 «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

it totally worked, the witch got nowhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worked	nsubj
2	totally	totally	ADV	_	3 worked	advmod
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worked	ccomp
8	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it					totally property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	past	the witch					nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it was a joke at first but then it worked, the witch couldn't break in, wild stuff

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 joke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 joke	nmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 worked	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 worked	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worked	nsubj
10	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 break	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 break	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 break	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 break	advmod
16	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 worked	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 break	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stuff	punct
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stuff	amod
20	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a joke and wild stuff		tree rules
2	work	past	it		then	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not break in	could	the witch			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it actually worked, the witch couldn't break in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worked	nsubj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 worked	advmod
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 break	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 break	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 break	advmod
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 worked	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 break	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it					actually property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not break in	could	the witch						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

it actually worked, the witch couldn't break in and the priest's son was totally safe, no cap

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worked	nsubj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 worked	advmod
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 break	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 break	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 break	advmod
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 worked	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 break	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 safe	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 priest	det
13	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 priest	case
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 safe	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 safe	cop
17	totally	totally	ADV	_	18 safe	advmod
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 worked	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cap	punct
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 cap	det
21	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	past	it	no cap	actually property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not break in	could	the witch			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the priest's son		safe, totally property	tree rules

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