Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

why did the dad give the flute to the mum, lol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad · What happens: give · To what, where: flute, mum

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 give	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flute	det
7	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mum	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mum	det
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 give	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the dad	the flute	the mum				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flute=Theme to mum=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

so she could play it too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 play	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 play	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 play	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	could	she	it					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

so she could sing along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 sing	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could	she					along property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3

so she could play it too whenever she wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 play	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 play	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 play	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 play	advmod
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 wanted	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 play	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	could	she	it					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	want	past	she					whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

because the boys were too lazy to play it themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 lazy	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lazy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lazy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lazy	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 play	obj
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boys					lazy property	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive	the boys not said here	it					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary themselves=Theme

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