Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…

Dude, can one feather really light a whole room?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: light · To what, where: whole room

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feather	punct
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 feather	aux
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feather	nummod
5	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 light	advmod
7	light	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 room	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present	Dude and one feather	a whole room					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product

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

Nah, it just lights a corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lights	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lights	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 lights	advmod
5	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lights	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	present	it	a corner					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Product

Option 2

Yep, it lights up a dark room like a sun in a cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 lights	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lights	nsubj
4	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lights	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lights	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cellar	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cellar	det
14	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lights	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	present	it	a dark room		a cellar		like a sun	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product

Option 3

Nah, mate, it's just a feather so it can't do much

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 feather	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feather	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feather	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 feather	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feather	det
9	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 do	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 feather	acl:relcl
15	much	much	ADV	_	14 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mate	a feather					tree rules
2	not do	can	mate	a feather not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yep, it lights up a dark room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 lights	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lights	nsubj
4	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lights	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lights	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light up	present	it	a dark room					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product

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