Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Dude, why'd the church end up with bones swept out every morning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: end up, sweep out · To what, where: church, bones

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1107 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: the boy buys the holy image and is sent to the church» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 end	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 church	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obl
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dude	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 bones	case
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 end	obl
11	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bones	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 swept	compound:prt
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swept	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present		the church				with bones	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sweep out	participle		bones not said here			morning		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

the floor was never cleaned properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cleaned	aux:pass
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 cleaned	advmod
5	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 cleaned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not clean	past · passive		the floor				properly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the bones of the drowned sailors were brought there after every storm at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bones	det
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brought	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 sailors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sailors	det
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sailors	amod
6	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bones	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	aux:pass
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 brought	advmod
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 storm	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 sea	case
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 storm	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bring	past · passive		the bones of the drowned sailors		there	after every storm at sea		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme

Option 3

merchants kept dying there reading prayers aloud at the altar every single night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prayers	amod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dying	advmod
5	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prayers	amod
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obj
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 kept	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 altar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 altar	det
10	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	merchants	dying reading prayers	the altar	night	aloud property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme at altar=Location
2	die	gerund			there			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	read	gerund						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

merchants kept dying there reading prayers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dying	advmod
5	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prayers	amod
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep	past	merchants			tree rules
2	die	gerund	merchants not said here	reading prayers	there	tree rules
3	read	gerund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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