Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

Yo, the corpse wants its lid back, so what's the moujik's flex?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: corpse · What happens: want back, be · To what, where: lid, flex

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 478 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: the moujik wins back the coffin-lid and saves two dead lads» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corpse	det
4	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lid	nmod:poss
7	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 wants	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flex	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	16 flex	advmod
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 flex	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 flex	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moujik	det
14	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flex	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 moujik	case
16	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	present	the corpse	corpse's lid					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lid=Theme
2	is a	present		the moujik's flex					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 · ✓ the right answer

He makes it spill the healing secret

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 secret	det
6	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secret	compound
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	He	it					tree rules
2	spill	infinitive		the healing secret					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location secret=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He pretends to return the lid but makes it reveal the healing secret first

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 pretends	nsubj
2	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 return	mark
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretends	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 makes	cc
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pretends	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 makes	obj
10	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 makes	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 secret	det
12	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 secret	compound
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reveal	obj
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 reveal	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	present	He			tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive	He not said here	the lid		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
3	make	present	He not said here	lid		tree rules
4	reveal	infinitive	lid not said here	the healing secret	first property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic

Option 3

He tells it a lie about the lid

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 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 lid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lid	det
8	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	He	a lie	it			about the lid	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient lie=Topic

Option 4

He grabs the lid and refuses to return it until it tells him everything about healing

The tree, 16 words

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 grabs	nsubj
2	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lid	det
4	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabs	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 refuses	cc
6	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grabs	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 return	mark
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refuses	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 return	obj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 tells	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tells	nsubj
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 refuses	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tells	iobj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 tells	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 healing	case
16	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 everything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grab	present	He	the lid			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
2	refuse	present	He not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not return	to-infinitive	He not said here	lid			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	lid	everything	him = he	about healing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic

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