Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

no cap, what was growing over the spot, like nettles?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: grow · To what, where: spot

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 477 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a dead man and wakes three hundred years late» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 growing	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 growing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 growing	aux
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cap	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 spot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spot	det
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nettles	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 nettles	case
12	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spot	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	no cap			the spot and nettles			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over spot=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

nettles and tall grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 grass	cc
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nettles	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

thistles and some dock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thistles	thistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dock	cc
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 dock	det
4	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 thistles	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a whole mess of thorny stuff, bushes, and some random old fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mess	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mess	amod
3	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stuff	case
5	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stuff	amod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mess	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bushes	punct
8	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mess	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fence	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fence	cc
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 fence	nsubj
12	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fence	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fence	amod
14	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fence		some						tree rules
2	mess			thorny stuff					nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

loads of nettles, tall grass, brambles, and wild bushes all tangled up together

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tangled	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 nettles	case
3	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 loads	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grass	punct
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grass	amod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nettles	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brambles	punct
8	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grass	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tangled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tangled	cc
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bushes	amod
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tangled	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 tangled	advmod
14	tangled	tangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 tangled	compound:prt
16	together	together	ADV	_	14 tangled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tangle up	past	loads of nettles					all, together property	tree rules

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