Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

lol why did the brothers bury the hog like it was a dead body?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, hog · What happens: bury, be · To what, where: hog

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1117 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 bury	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bury	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brothers	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bury	nsubj
6	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hog	det
8	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bury	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	14 body	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 body	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 body	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 body	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bury	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bury	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	the brothers	the hog					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hog=Theme
2	is	past	hog					like a dead body	tree rules

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

cause they didn't want dad to know what happened in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woods	det
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	they	dad		tree rules
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	dad not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	past			the woods	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause they didn't want dad to know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	they	dad	tree rules
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	dad not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

cause they were scared dad would find out about the gun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dad	compound
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 find	compound:prt
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 gun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gun	det
11	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they	cause not said here				scared property	tree rules
2	find out	would	cause dad					about the gun	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about gun=Topic

Option 4

cause they wanted to hide it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hide	mark
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	cause not said here					tree rules
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	cause not said here	cause					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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