Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Bro, did the soldier just sit there and let the witch eat him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: soldier, witch · What happens: sit, let, eat · To what, where: witch, soldier

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sit	advmod
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sit	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	the soldier		there	Bro vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive	the soldier not said here	the witch			tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	the witch not said here	soldier			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

yes, he sat still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

no way, he jumped on the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jumped	nsubj
5	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	he	no way				on the horse	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory

Option 3

yes, he just sat there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

no, he ran off into the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he					into the woods result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

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