Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…

what's the move at the lake, bet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, bet · To what, where: move, lake

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 move	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 move	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 move	det
4	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bet	punct
9	bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 move	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the move		the lake			tree rules
2	bet	infinitive							vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

walk backwards, don't look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	1 walk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 walk	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not look	infinitive · do-support							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

turn around, walk slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 turn	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 turn	conj
5	slow	slow	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	imperative	you not said here					around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	infinitive	you not said here					slow property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

just wait by the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 wait	advmod
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					by the water	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by water=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

turn your back, walk backwards, and don't look at the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 back	nmod:poss
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turn	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 turn	conj
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 turn	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 lake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lake	det
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	your back		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	walk	infinitive	you not said here		backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not look	infinitive · do-support	you not said here		at the lake	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lake=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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