Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Princes, part 28: the elder br…

Wait, why does the rich bloke bury his son in a trench?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, rich bloke · What happens: wait, bury · To what, where: son, trench

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bury	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 bury	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bury	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bury	nsubj
8	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bury	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 trench	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 trench	det
13	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bury	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bury	present · do-support	the rich bloke	bloke's son		a trench			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme in trench=Destination

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

To claim the land as his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 claim	mark
2	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 claim	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 claim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	to-infinitive		the land				as his own	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent land=Topic

Option 2

To make the field look like his so the poor man can't prove otherwise

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 his	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 prove	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prove	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 prove	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 prove	advmod
14	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 look	advcl
15	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	14 prove	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the field		tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the field not said here		like his = he	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not prove	can	the poor man		otherwise property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To make the field look like his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 his	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the field					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the field not said here					like his = he	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

To hide the boy from the Lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Lord	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lord	det
7	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		the boy				from the Lord	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent boy=Patient from lord=Beneficiary

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