Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

how'd they eat if they never sowed no wheat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: eat, not sow · To what, where: wheat

This is test 12 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 eat	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 sowed	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sowed	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 sowed	advmod
8	sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	ccomp
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 wheat	det
10	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sowed	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they						tree rules
2	not sow a condition, not said to happen	past	they	no wheat					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme

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 had lots and lots to eat from the ram

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lots	cc
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 ram	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ram	det
10	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	lots and lots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	they not said here			the ram			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from ram=Source

Option 2

they had heaps of bread

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bread	case
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heaps	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	heaps of bread					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they had lots and lots to eat

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lots	cc
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lots	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	lots and lots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	they not said here	lots and lots not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

they had lots and lots to eat from a big sack of grain

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lots	cc
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 sack	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sack	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sack	amod
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 grain	case
13	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	lots and lots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	they not said here			a big sack of grain			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sack=Source

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