Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…

So the bird sleeps when it's daytime, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: sleep, be · To what, where: daytime

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sleeps	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	nsubj
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 daytime	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 daytime	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 daytime	cop
8	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 daytime	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	4 sleeps	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sleeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	the bird						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	bird	daytime					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

Yeah, it sleeps at sunrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sleeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleeps	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeps	nsubj
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sunrise	case
6	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	it				sunrise		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it crashes out at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crashes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crashes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crashes	nsubj
4	crashes	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 crashes	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crashes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash out	present	it				dawn		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, it crashes out at dawn and sleeps like a log till dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crashes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crashes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crashes	nsubj
4	crashes	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 crashes	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crashes	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sleeps	cc
9	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crashes	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 log	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 log	det
12	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleeps	obl
13	till	till	ADP	_	14 dark	case
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash out	present	it				dawn		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sleep	present					till dark	like a log	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, it flies all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flies	nsubj
4	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flies	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 flies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	it				day	long property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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