Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

What did the Wind do the third time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: do

This is test 12 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the Wind				time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Sent twelve henchmen to thrash him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 henchmen	nummod
3	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sent	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 thrash	mark
5	thrash	thrash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sent	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thrash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		twelve henchmen					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent henchman=Theme
2	thrash	to-infinitive		him = he					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Sent twelve henchmen to bring him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 henchmen	nummod
3	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sent	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bring	mark
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sent	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		twelve henchmen					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent henchman=Theme
2	bring back	to-infinitive			him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 3

Sent six henchmen to scold him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 henchmen	nummod
3	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sent	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scold	mark
5	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sent	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		six henchmen					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent henchman=Theme
2	scold	to-infinitive		him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Sent a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		a letter					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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