Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

what did the henchmen do when told to go back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: henchmen · What happens: do, tell, go back · To what, where: henchmen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 henchmen	det
4	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	nsubj:pass
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive · do-support		the henchmen	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the henchmen not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

they vanished straight into the drum like magic, bro

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	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 drum	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 vanished	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 magic	case
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drum	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drum	conj

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

Option 2

they vanished straight back into the drum and sealed it

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	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 back	advmod
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 vanished	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 drum	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drum	det
7	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vanished	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sealed	cc
9	sealed	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vanished	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sealed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	they			the drum			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seal	past	they not said here	drum					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they vanished straight 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 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	2 vanished	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 vanished	obl

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

Option 4

they jumped straight 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 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	2 jumped	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 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	they			the drum		straight property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into drum=Destination

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