Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Lol, what made the witch just flop down flat on the road?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: make, flop down · To what, where: witch, road

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 flop	advmod
8	flop	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 flop	advmod
10	flat	flat	ADV	_	8 flop	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flop	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the witch					tree rules
2	flop down	present				the road		down, flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=Location

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

the Soldier threw holy water at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Soldier	det
2	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the Soldier	holy water				at her = she	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme at she=Destination

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

the cocks started crowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cocks	det
2	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	crowing	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the cocks						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	crow	gerund	the cocks not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the horse kicked her hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	nsubj
3	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kicked	obj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 kicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	the horse	her = she				hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

the cocks crowed and the sun rose over the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cocks	det
2	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowed	nsubj
3	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rose	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	nsubj
7	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crowed	conj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	the cocks						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rise	past	the sun			the hill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Location

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