Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

What got him so wasted he forgot about the ram?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: get, waste, forget · To what, where: him

This is test 6 · ★ 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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 wasted	advmod
5	wasted	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgot	nsubj
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wasted	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 ram	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ram	det
10	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgot	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past		him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	waste	past				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	forget	past	he		about the ram	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

Cups of cider and ale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 cider	case
3	cider	cider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cups	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ale	cc
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cider	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pot after pot of mead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 pot	case
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pot	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 mead	case
5	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Pot after pot of mead, poured by the Jews at their big table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poured	nsubj:pass
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 pot	case
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pot	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 mead	case
5	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 poured	punct
7	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Jews	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Jews	det
10	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 poured	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 table	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 table	nmod:poss
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 table	amod
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	participle · passive	the Jews	Pot after pot of mead		Jews's big table			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

Pot after pot of mead that the Jews kept pouring for him all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 pot	case
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pot	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 mead	case
5	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 kept	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Jews	det
8	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mead	acl:relcl
10	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pouring	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pouring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Jews	mead					tree rules
2	pour	gerund	mead not said here				night	for him = he	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary

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