Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…

Did the golden horse eat when the hero was dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: golden horse, hero · What happens: do, eat, be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 472 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess saves the Prince and the Fire-Bird is described» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dead	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hero	det
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eat	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	the golden horse		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the hero	dead property	tree rules

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

Yes, it ate the apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apples	det
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	it	the apples					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it wouldn't eat at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	would	it			all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nope, it wouldn't eat at all and just stood there sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 eat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 stood	advmod
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stood	advmod
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stood	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	would	it			all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past				there		sad property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nope, it ate golden hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hay	amod
6	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	it	golden hay					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient

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