Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Did the soldier tell the family the truth about the Warlock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: tell · To what, where: family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 Warlock	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Warlock	det
11	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 truth	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the soldier	the family					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient truth=Topic

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

Yes, he told them the Warlock was a saint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Warlock	det
7	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 saint	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saint	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 saint	det
10	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	past	the Warlock	a saint					tree rules

Option 2

No, he said nothing about the Warlock to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Warlock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Warlock	det
8	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	nothing	them = they			about the Warlock	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to they=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He said the Warlock had been haunting the village

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Warlock	det
4	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 haunting	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 haunting	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 haunting	aux
7	haunting	haunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 haunting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	haunt	past · perfect · progressive	the Warlock	the village					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus village=Experiencer

Option 4

He told them the wedding was cancelled

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wedding	det
5	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cancelled	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cancelled	aux:pass
7	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cancel	past · passive		the wedding					tree rules

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