Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…
Be honest, did the grandfather say go or stay at the merchant's?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandfather · What happens: be, say, go, stay · To what, where: merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | cop |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 say | csubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 honest | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grandfather | det |
| 6 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 stay | cc |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 merchant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stay | obl |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 merchant | case |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the grandfather | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | the grandfather not said here | the merchant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at merchant=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 · ← Mova's choice
stay home and wait for the witch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 stay | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wait | cc |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 stay | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 witch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | for the witch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
go to the graveyard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 graveyard | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 graveyard | det |
| 4 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the graveyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial_Location |
Option 3
stay at the merchant's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 merchant | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 stay | obl |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 merchant | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | the merchant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at merchant=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
go to the merchant's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 merchant | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 go | obl |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 merchant | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial_Location |
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