Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

How did the henchmen respond when commanded to return to the drum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: henchmen · What happens: respond, command, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 respond	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 respond	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 henchmen	det
4	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 respond	nsubj
5	respond	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 commanded	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 commanded	advmod
7	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 return	mark
9	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 commanded	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 drum	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 drum	det
12	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 return	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 commanded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past · do-support	the henchmen		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	command	participle			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return not said to happen	to-infinitive		to the drum result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to drum=Result

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

they disappeared immediately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disappeared	nsubj
2	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 disappeared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	they					immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they vanished at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	they						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they disappeared immediately, one by one, into the drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disappeared	nsubj
2	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 disappeared	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 disappeared	conj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drum	punct
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 drum	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drum	det
11	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	they			the drum		immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they disappeared immediately into the drum again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disappeared	nsubj
2	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 disappeared	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 drum	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drum	det
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappeared	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 disappeared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	they			the drum	again	immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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