Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tsar Novishny, part 9: the children ri…

no cap, the bee shook them off, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: shake off · To what, where: them

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1103 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tsar Novishny, part 9: the children ride a horse, a humble-bee and a bullock away from the serpent, and the bullock gives his life to save them» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shook	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bee	det
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shook	nsubj
6	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shook	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 shook	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shook	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 shook	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake off	past	no cap	them = they					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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

Yep, the wind knocked them down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocked	nsubj
5	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knocked	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	the wind	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Yep, he turned his wing and shook them right off his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wing	nmod:poss
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shook	cc
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shook	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	8 shook	advmod
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he	his wing					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
2	shake	past	he not said here	them = they		his back		right property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme off back=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he turned his wing and shook them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wing	nmod:poss
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shook	cc
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he	his wing					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
2	shake	past	he not said here	them = they					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Nope, he flew really high up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flew	xcomp
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	he					high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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