Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

By what means did the poor brother attempt to rouse the oxen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, do, rouse · To what, where: poor brother attempt, oxen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1101 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother: the henchmen in the drum settle the quarrel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 attempt	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 attempt	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attempt	compound
8	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rouse	mark
10	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 attempt	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oxen	det
12	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rouse	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the poor brother attempt	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality
3	rouse	to-infinitive	the oxen	vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient

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

by beating them hard with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 beating	mark
2	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beating	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 beating	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	gerund		them = they				with a stick; hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with stick=Instrument

Option 2

by kicking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 kicking	mark
2	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	gerund							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

by beating them with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 beating	mark
2	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beating	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 beating	obl

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

Option 4

by shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 shouting	mark
2	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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