Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

Lowkey, what did the Wind give him instead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: give · To what, where: Wind

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 give	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	det
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Lowkey		Wind			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=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

A little ram that scatters money, and the Jews wanted to buy it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ram	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ram	amod
3	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 scatters	nsubj
5	scatters	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ram	acl:relcl
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scatters	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Jews	det
10	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 buy	mark
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	scatter	present	a little ram	money	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	want	past	a little ram		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	a little ram not said here	money	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A ram that scatters money all over the floor whenever he says the words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ram	det
2	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 scatters	nsubj
4	scatters	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ram	acl:relcl
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scatters	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 floor	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scatters	obl
10	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 says	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	present	a ram	money		the floor			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme over floor=Destination
2	say speech: assert	present	a ram	the words				whenever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 3

A goat that spits coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 spits	nsubj
4	spits	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goat	acl:relcl
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	a goat	coins					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A ram that scatters money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ram	det
2	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 scatters	nsubj
4	scatters	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ram	acl:relcl
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scatters	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	present	a ram	money					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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