Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

No way, the Warlock said a maggot could ruin everything?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Warlock, maggot · What happens: say, ruin · To what, where: way, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Warlock	det
5	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 maggot	det
8	maggot	maggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ruin	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 ruin	aux
10	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 ruin	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Warlock	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ruin	could	a maggot	everything					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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

Yep, one tiny maggot could make him escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 maggot	nummod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maggot	amod
5	maggot	maggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	one tiny maggot	him = he					tree rules
2	escape	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yep, a small grub helped him flee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grub	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grub	amod
5	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helped	nsubj
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 helped	obj
8	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 helped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	a small grub	him = he					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	flee	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a worm could let him slip away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 worm	det
4	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 slip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	could	a worm	him = he					tree rules
2	slip away	infinitive	him = he not said here					away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nope, never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	1 Nope	advmod

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

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