Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

ngl, what did the nobleman threaten to do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobleman · What happens: threaten, do

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1109 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: the impossible sea task» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nobleman	det
6	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 threaten	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the nobleman					ngl vocative	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the nobleman not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

lock him in the tower until the king comes back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 lock	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tower	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lock	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 lock	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the tower			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	come back	present	the king						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

chop off his head and throw it into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 chop	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chop	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 throw	cc
6	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 chop	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 throw	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	imperative	you not said here	his head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	throw	infinitive	you not said here	head				into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

chop off his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 chop	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	imperative	you not said here	his head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cut off his arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 cut	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arm	nmod:poss
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	his arm					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector arm=Eventuality

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