Test 5 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40:…

ngl the magpie was so extra, what was he begging for?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, magpie · What happens: ngl, be, beg

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 700 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40: the fox tricks the magpie and the crow, then meets a bear who needs a mourner» 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magpie	det
3	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 extra	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 extra	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 extra	advmod
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begging	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 begging	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 begging	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 begging	nsubj
11	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 extra	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	11 begging	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	is	past	the magpie	extra property	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past · progressive	magpie		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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 fox to spare his nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 spare	mark
4	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fox	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive		fox's nest					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent nest=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the fox not to cut his tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cut	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cut	mark
5	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tree	nmod:poss
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cut	to-infinitive	the fox	fox's tree					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product

Option 3

the fox not to chop his branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chop	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 chop	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 chop	mark
5	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 branch	nmod:poss
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not chop	to-infinitive	the fox	fox's branch					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient

Option 4

to be spared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 spared	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 spared	aux:pass
3	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive · passive							vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»

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