Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

Why'd the man get beaten up in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: beat up · To what, where: man

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 beaten	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 beaten	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beaten	nsubj
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 beaten	aux:pass
6	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 beaten	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beaten	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 beaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	would · passive		the man			in the end		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in end=Topic

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

He lied and kept going to taverns

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 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lied	conj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 taverns	case
7	taverns	tavern	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	lie	past	He		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	He not said here		tree rules
3	go	gerund	He not said here	taverns	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Initial_Location

Option 2

He was drunk

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	3 drunk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux:pass
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		He					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He stole the sack

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	the sack					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme

Option 4

He kept selling the ram

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ram	det
5	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He						tree rules
2	sell	gerund	He not said here	the ram					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Theme

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