Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

In what manner did the protagonist first respond to the sack's failure to provide sustenance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sack · What happens: do, provide, fail · To what, where: protagonist first respond, manner, sustenance

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1099 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scatters money» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 respond	det
6	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 respond	compound
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 respond	amod
8	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 failure	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 failure	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 sack	case
13	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 provide	mark
15	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 failure	acl
16	sustenance	sustenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 provide	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the protagonist first respond	what manner	to the sack's failure	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	provide	to-infinitive		sustenance			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sustenance=Theme
3	fail		the sack				nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

He beat it with a club until it was completely destroyed and useless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 club	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 club	det
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 destroyed	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 destroyed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 destroyed	aux:pass
10	completely	completely	ADV	_	11 destroyed	advmod
11	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 beat	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 useless	cc
13	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 destroyed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	He	it				with a club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with club=Instrument
2	destroy	past · passive		club				completely property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He beat it with a club until it was destroyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 club	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 club	det
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 destroyed	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 destroyed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 destroyed	aux:pass
10	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 beat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	He	it				with a club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with club=Instrument
2	destroy	past · passive		club					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He beat it with a club, then dragged the broken sack out to the field

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 club	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 club	det
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dragged	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 dragged	advmod
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sack	amod
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragged	obj
13	out	out	ADV	_	9 dragged	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	He	it			with a club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with club=Instrument
2	drag	past	He not said here	the broken sack	the field	then	out property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme to field=Destination
3	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He hit it with a heavy stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 stick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stick	amod
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	He	it				with a heavy stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stick=Instrument

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