Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder br…

So the faithless wife got tied to horses, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: tie · To what, where: faithless wife

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1122 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder brother is turned to stone, and the younger brother wins him back from a witch» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 tied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
3	faithless	faithless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tied	aux:pass
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tied	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tied	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		the faithless wife				to horses	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to horse=Co-Patient

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

Yeah, four wild ones tore her apart in the market square at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tore	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ones	nummod
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tore	nsubj
6	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tore	obj
8	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 tore	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 square	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 square	det
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 square	compound
12	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tore	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 square	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	four wild ones	her = she		the market square at dawn		apart property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, two of them tore her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tore	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 two	nmod
6	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tore	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 tore	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore up	past	two of them	her = she					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, four wild ones tore her apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tore	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ones	nummod
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tore	nsubj
6	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tore	obj
8	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 tore	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	four wild ones	her = she				apart property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the Empress ordered four wild ones to tear her apart in front of everyone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ordered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Empress	det
4	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	nsubj
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ones	nummod
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ordered	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tear	mark
10	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ordered	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tear	obj
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 tear	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tear	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 everyone	case
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the Empress	four wild ones					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tear not said to happen	to-infinitive	four wild ones not said here	Empress		front of everyone		apart property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location she=Theme

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