Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Wait, why did the Warlock steal the wedding blood in those little bottles?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Warlock · What happens: wait, steal · To what, where: wedding blood, little bottles

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 steal	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 steal	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 steal	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Warlock	det
6	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 steal	nsubj
7	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blood	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blood	compound
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steal	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 bottles	case
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 bottles	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bottles	amod
14	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 steal	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	steal	past · do-support	the Warlock	the wedding blood		that little bottles			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme

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

For his boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 boots	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boots	nmod:poss
3	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

He wanted their money to buy a new horse

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	their money					tree rules
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	their money not said here	a new horse					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted to rule the village and the church

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rule	mark
4	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 church	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	rule not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the village and the church					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So the couple would die and he could bring them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 die	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bring	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bring	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	aux
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 die	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	the couple						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	bring back	could	couple	them = they					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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