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

Bro, why'd the man smash his sack?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: smash · To what, where: sack

This is test 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. 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smash	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smash	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 smash	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 smash	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smash	nsubj
7	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sack	nmod:poss
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smash	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 smash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	infinitive	the man	man's sack				Bro vocative	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

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

It kept the bread 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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	past	It	the bread				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 2

Cuz it sucked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sucked	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sucked	expl
3	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	past	Cuz	it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It wouldn't give him food

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 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	would	It	food	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

Option 4

It wouldn't feed him

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 feed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feed	advmod
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feed	would	It		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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