Test 9 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

why was the sack quiet at home, dude?

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

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» 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 quiet	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quiet	nsubj
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quiet	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dude	punct
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 home	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sack			home and dude		quiet 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

the tavern-keepers had swapped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 keepers	det
2	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keepers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tavern	punct
4	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swapped	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swapped	aux
6	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past · perfect	the tavern keepers	it					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it got swapped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	it						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	swap	participle							vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it had been stolen by thieves at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stolen	aux:pass
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 thieves	case
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stolen	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive	thieves	it			night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme

Option 4

it was blown away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blown	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blown	aux:pass
3	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 blown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	past · passive		it				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

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