Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Was the princess properly dead in the first kingdom?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be · To what, where: first kingdom

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 486 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part 78: a greedy Pope steals loaves and tries to cure a princess by chopping her up» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 kingdom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kingdom	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 kingdom	amod
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess			the first kingdom		dead, properly 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was chopped up, then sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopped	aux:pass
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sorted	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sorted	advmod
9	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chopped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past · passive		she					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	sort	participle					then		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was stone dead, then he chopped her up and tossed her in the river

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	compound
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chopped	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 chopped	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chopped	nsubj
10	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	parataxis
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chopped	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 chopped	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tossed	cc
14	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chopped	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tossed	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she				dead property	tree rules
2	chop up	past	he	her = she		then		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	toss	past	he not said here	her = she	the river			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in river=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, she was dead as a doornail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 doornail	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 doornail	det
8	doornail	doornail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					as a doornail; dead property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she was just knocked out cold, then the Pope woke her up nicely

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knocked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knocked	aux:pass
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 knocked	advmod
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 knocked	compound:prt
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knocked	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woke	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 woke	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pope	det
12	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 woke	nsubj
13	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knocked	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 woke	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 woke	compound:prt
16	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	13 woke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past · passive		she				cold property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
2	wake up	past	the Pope	her = she			then	nicely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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