Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Wait, what did the soldier do with the witch in the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: soldier

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
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 Wait	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 witch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 witch	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the soldier		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality
3	do	present			with the witch in the end	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

burned her to ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 burned	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 ashes	case
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		her = she				to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

left her lying on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 left	obj
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 left	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past		her = she					tree rules
2	lie	gerund	her = she not said here			the road			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

put her in the coffin and buried her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 coffin	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coffin	det
5	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 put	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buried	cc
7	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 put	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the coffin			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in coffin=Destination
2	bury	past	you not said here	her = she					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

took her home to the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 home	nmod:poss
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		her home		the village			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to village=Destination

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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