Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

bruh, why'd the oxen just flop and refuse to get up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oxen · What happens: flop, refuse, not get up

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 flop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flop	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 flop	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 flop	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oxen	det
6	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flop	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 flop	advmod
8	flop	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 refuse	cc
10	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flop	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 refuse	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 flop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	flop	would	the oxen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	present	the oxen not said here	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not get up	to-infinitive	the oxen not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

cause they got no water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	they	no water					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause nobody gave 'em water or grub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	cop
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 grub	cc
7	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	nobody		'em = they			give property	tree rules

Option 3

cause nobody fed 'em

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fed	nsubj
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	nobody	'em = they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

cause they're lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 lazy	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					lazy property	tree rules

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