Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

what did the rich dude threaten, like a boss move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich dude · What happens: threaten

This is test 7 · ★ 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	6 threaten	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 threaten	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dude	det
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dude	amod
5	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threaten	nsubj
6	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 move	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 move	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 move	det
10	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 move	compound
11	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threaten	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the rich dude					like a boss move	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus what=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

throw the poor bro in a pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 throw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pit	det
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	the poor bro		a pit			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bro=Theme in pit=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hang the poor bro on a gallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 gallows	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gallows	det
7	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	the poor bro		a gallows			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bro=Theme on gallows=Destination

Option 3

hang the poor bro on a gallows, no mercy, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 gallows	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gallows	det
7	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hang	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mercy	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 mercy	det
10	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gallows	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gallows	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	the poor bro		a gallows and no mercy			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bro=Theme on gallows=Destination

Option 4

hang the poor bro on a gallows right in the square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hang	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 gallows	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gallows	det
7	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hang	obl
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hang	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 square	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 square	det
11	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	the poor bro		a gallows		right property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bro=Theme on gallows=Destination

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