Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Why did the soldier say he wasn't scared of the Warlock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scared	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 scared	advmod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Warlock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Warlock	det
12	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 scared	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the soldier						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	soldier					of the Warlock; scared property	tree rules

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

He had a gun

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gun	det
4	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a gun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He said a soldier belongs to the crown

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	nsubj
5	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 crown	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crown	det
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	obl

#	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	belong	present	a soldier					to the crown	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He believed the Warlock was just a fool

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	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	8 fool	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fool	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 fool	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fool	det
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	He						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the Warlock	a fool					tree rules

Option 4

He was brave

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	3 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					brave property	tree rules

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