Test 11 · ★ · Russian Tales, Ivan the Fool, part 31: Ivan's millstone sc…

ngl, why'd the robbers run off and leave all their stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: run off, leave · To what, where: stuff

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1125 «Russian Tales, Ivan the Fool, part 31: Ivan's millstone scatters robbers, and his magic fife sets a parson dancing into a hedge» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 run	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 run	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 run	nsubj
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 run	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leave	cc
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 run	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 stuff	det:predet
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stuff	nmod:poss
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	would	ngl						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	ngl not said here	robbers's stuff					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The pottage flew in their eyes and they got scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pottage	det
2	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the pottage			their eyes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location
2	get	past	eyes = eye					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They were scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					scared property	tree rules

Option 3

The dog barked and they panicked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barked	nsubj
3	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 panicked	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 panicked	nsubj
6	panicked	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	panic	past	they						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They got hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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