Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Ngl, what did the witch say she wanted to do to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, say, want · To what, where: witch, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the witch		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Ngl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	Ngl			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ngl not said here		him = he	vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

take his money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 money	nmod:poss
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	his money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2

kill him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

eat him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 eat	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 eat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

keep him here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keep	obj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	him = he		here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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