Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

did the brothers all just play it straight away?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, play · To what, where: brothers, it

This is test 7 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 play	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 did	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 play	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 play	advmod
6	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 play	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 play	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	you not said here	the brothers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality
2	play	imperative	you not said here	it				all, away property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 right answer

nope they had to be forced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 had	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 forced	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 forced	aux:pass
6	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they						tree rules
2	force	to-infinitive · passive	they not said here						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»

Option 2

nope the brothers only played it after a long argument with their dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 brothers	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 played	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	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 played	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 argument	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 argument	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 argument	amod
10	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 dad	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dad	nmod:poss
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 argument	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the brothers	it			after a long argument with brothers's dad		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

nope they had to be forced by their father each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 had	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 forced	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 forced	aux:pass
6	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forced	obl
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forced	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they						tree rules
2	force	to-infinitive · passive	their father				time		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yep they did right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	they					away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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