Test 14 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Bro, why does the writer talk about vampires at the very end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: writer · What happens: talk · To what, where: end

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 talk	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 writer	det
6	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nsubj
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 vampires	case
9	vampires	vampire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 end	advmod
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present · do-support	the writer				at the end	about vampires; Bro vocative	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about vampire=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

To explain why the bride's family was wealthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 explain	mark
2	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 wealthy	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bride	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wealthy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wealthy	cop
9	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 explain	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the bride's family					wealthy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Because such stories are common among Slavonic peoples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 common	mark
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stories	amod
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 common	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 common	cop
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 peoples	case
7	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 peoples	compound
8	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 common	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	such stories					among Slavonic peoples; common property	tree rules

Option 3

Because such stories are common among Slavonic peoples and the writer heard them as a child

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 common	mark
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stories	amod
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 common	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 common	cop
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 peoples	case
7	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 peoples	compound
8	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 common	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 writer	det
11	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 common	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	such stories					among Slavonic peoples; common property	tree rules
2	hear	past	the writer	stories = story				as a child	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

Because the writer once met a vampire himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 met	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 writer	det
3	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 met	advmod
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vampire	det
7	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the writer	a vampire				writer obl; once property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vampire=Co-Agent

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