Test 4 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an ol…

Wait, the old man buried money under an oak, so what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old man · What happens: wait, bury · To what, where: old man, money, oak

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1124 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an old man is sent to school, a nobleman gives him a purse, and his sons are tricked» 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	_	5 man	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 man	acl
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 oak	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 oak	det
10	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Wait	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	the old man					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bury	participle	the old man not said here	money		a oak			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme under oak=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

Yeah, he went back to the oak, dug the hole up, and gave all the gold to his sons

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 oak	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oak	det
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dug	punct
10	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dug	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	10 dug	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 gold	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gold	det
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 sons	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sons	nmod:poss
22	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he			to the oak result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to oak=Result
2	dig up	past	he not said here	the hole			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
3	give	past	he not said here	all gold	his sons		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to son=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, the sons found it years later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sons	det
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	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 found	obj
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 later	obl:unmarked
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the sons	it				late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, the sons dug up gold later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sons	det
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 gold	amod
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 dug	compound:prt
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 later	obl:unmarked
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sons	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	4 sons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	participle							vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was just glass the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 glass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 glass	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glass	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 glass	advmod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	glass			time		tree rules

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