Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Dude, was that Warlock actually dead or just napping in his grave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be, nap · To what, where: grave

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 479 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldier burns the wicked Warlock and the village is saved.» 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 dead	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 dead	mark
5	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 napping	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 napping	advmod
10	napping	nap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 dead	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 grave	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grave	nmod:poss
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 napping	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dude					actually, dead property	tree rules
2	nap	gerund	Dude not said here			Warlock's grave			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Totally dead, the cocks crowed, he flopped, and the villagers burned him after

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 dead	advmod
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cocks	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dead	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cocks	det
5	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crowed	nsubj
6	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flopped	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flopped	nsubj
9	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crowed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 burned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 burned	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 villagers	det
13	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 burned	nsubj
14	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crowed	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 burned	obj
16	after	after	ADP	_	14 burned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	crow	past	the dead cocks		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flop	past	he		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	burn after	past	the villagers	him = he	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Not dead, he just woke up after the cocks sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 dead	advmod
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sang	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woke	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 woke	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 woke	advmod
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dead	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 woke	compound:prt
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 cocks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cocks	det
10	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 woke	obl
11	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	he				after the cocks		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Totally dead, the cocks crowed and he just flopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 dead	advmod
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cocks	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dead	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cocks	det
5	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crowed	nsubj
6	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flopped	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flopped	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 flopped	advmod
10	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	the dead cocks						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flop	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Still alive, he got up when the bells rang out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Still	still	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
2	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Still	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 rang	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bells	det
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rang	nsubj
10	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 rang	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	he				still		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	ring out	past	the bells						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/479-pg22373-part71/t1/