Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…

so the devils were chasing, and they only found footprints into the water, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: devils · What happens: chase, find · To what, where: footprints, water

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 489 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for any bride goes under the lake» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 chasing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 devils	det
3	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chasing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chasing	aux
5	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chasing	conj
11	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chasing	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	5 chasing	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	the devils						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	devils = devil	footprints		the water			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footprint=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

nah, they found tracks going home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tracks	acl
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	tracks					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic
2	go	gerund	tracks not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, all the prints go into the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 prints	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prints	det
5	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	all prints			the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location

Option 3

yeah, the tracks all go to the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tracks	det
4	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the tracks			the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location

Option 4

yeah, just footprints

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 footprints	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 footprints	advmod
4	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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