Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…

Did the Prince actually eat people, or did the Princess make that up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: eat, make up · To what, where: people, that

This is test 5 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Prince	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 make	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 make	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the Prince	people				actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	make up	past · do-support	the Prince not said here	that					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Pivot

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

She made it up, mate, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	She	it				mate vocative	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 2

He went mental

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He just went a bit weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weird	obl:unmarked
6	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He					weird property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He went mental and ate people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ate	cc
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	He not said here	people					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

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