Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

What did the man do when the ram was a total dud?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: man, ram · What happens: do, be · To what, where: total dud

This is test 10 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 dud	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ram	det
8	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dud	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dud	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dud	det
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dud	amod
12	dud	dud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the man						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is a	past	the ram	a total dud					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

He whacked it with a stick until it fell down and cried

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 whacked	nsubj
2	whacked	whack	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 whacked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whacked	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whacked	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whack	past	He	it	with a stick	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stick=Instrument
2	fall down	past	stick		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	stick not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He whacked it with a 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 whacked	nsubj
2	whacked	whack	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 whacked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whacked	obl

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

Option 3

He hit it with a heavy club

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 club	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 club	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 club	amod
7	club	club	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 club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with club=Instrument

Option 4

He threw it out the door

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	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 threw	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past	He	it				the door obl:unmarked	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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