Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

yo, why'd the poor bro run straight to his bro's crib?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor bro · What happens: run

This is test 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 run	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 run	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bro	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bro	amod
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 run	nsubj
8	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 crib	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 crib	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bro	nmod:poss
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crib	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 bro	case
14	crib	crib	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 run	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	the poor bro					to bro's bro's crib result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to crib=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

to tell his bro the oxen were duds, so he'd have to help

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bro	nmod:poss
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oxen	det
6	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 duds	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 duds	cop
8	duds	dud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		his bro	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bro=Recipient
2	is a	past	the oxen	duds	tree rules
3	have	would	he		tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

to tell him the oxen died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxen	det
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	die	past	the oxen						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

to tell him the oxen were duds and he was mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxen	det
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 duds	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 duds	cop
7	duds	dud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mad	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mad	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mad	cop
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	the oxen	duds			tree rules
3	is	past	he			mad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to tell him the oxen were duds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxen	det
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 duds	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 duds	cop
7	duds	dud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	the oxen	duds					tree rules

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