Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…

lol the soldier was gone for fifteen years, did he even miss his family?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier, he · What happens: be, miss · To what, where: family

This is test 7 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 gone	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 miss	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 miss	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 miss	nsubj
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 miss	advmod
13	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 family	nmod:poss
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 miss	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soldier				year	gone property	tree rules
2	miss	past · do-support	he	his family					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus

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, he was too busy with the war and the mare to even think about them at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 busy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 busy	advmod
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 war	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 war	det
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mare	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mare	det
12	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 war	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 think	advmod
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 busy	advcl
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 think	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					with the war and the mare; busy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here			all		about war	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic

Option 2

nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, he forgot them pretty fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	obj
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 forgot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	them = they				fast property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he hadn't seen them in forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 seen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 forever	case
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	he	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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