Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

how did he finally beat the serpent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, beat · To what, where: serpent

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1105 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling's warnings and the boiling water» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beat	nsubj
4	finally	finally	ADV	_	5 beat	advmod
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	beat	present	he	the serpent				finally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location serpent=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

his hounds and horses tore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hounds	nmod:poss
2	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tore	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 horses	cc
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hounds	conj
5	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	his hounds and horses	it					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his dogs and beasts tore it apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dogs	nmod:poss
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tore	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beasts	cc
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dogs	conj
5	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tore	obj
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 tore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	his dogs and beasts	it				apart property	tree rules

Option 3

his dogs and beasts tore it apart after he blew his flute and the serpent fell asleep

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dogs	nmod:poss
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tore	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beasts	cc
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dogs	conj
5	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tore	obj
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 tore	advmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 blew	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blew	nsubj
10	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tore	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 flute	nmod:poss
12	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blew	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 serpent	det
15	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blew	conj
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tore	past	his dogs and beasts	it	apart property	tree rules
2	blow	past	he	his flute		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flute=Patient
3	fall	past	the serpent		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

his dogs and beasts came out of the mill and tore it apart in the yard at night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dogs	nmod:poss
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beasts	cc
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dogs	conj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 mill	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mill	det
9	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tore	cc
11	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tore	obj
13	apart	apart	ADV	_	11 tore	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 yard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 yard	det
16	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tore	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	his dogs and beasts	the mill					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mill=Result
2	tore	past	his dogs and beasts not said here	mill			night	in the yard; apart property	tree rules

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