Test 7 · ★ · Russian Tales, Ivan the Fool, part 31: Ivan's millstone sc…

ok but why were the cows all skinny by the end of the day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cows

This is test 7 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	8 skinny	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cows	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cows	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cows	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cows	det
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ok	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 skinny	det
8	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skinny	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 skinny	punct

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

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

They danced so hard they couldn't eat their grass

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 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 danced	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 danced	parataxis
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grass	nmod:poss
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	They					hard property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not eat	could	they	their grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They danced all day and then Ivan made them run around the whole village again at night until dawn

The tree, 19 words

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 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 danced	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 made	advmod
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 danced	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
11	around	around	ADP	_	14 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 village	amod
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	10 run	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	obl
18	until	until	ADP	_	19 dawn	case
19	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	dance	past	They			day	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	Ivan	them = they		then	tree rules
3	run	infinitive	them = they not said here		the whole village	again; dawn; night	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around village=Trajectory

Option 3

The parson had stolen their grass for his own horses and left them with nothing to eat at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parson	det
2	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stolen	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grass	nmod:poss
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stolen	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 horses	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horses	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horses	amod
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stolen	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 nothing	case
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 left	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive	the parson		for parson's own horses	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary grass=Theme
2	leave	past	horses = horse		with nothing	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with nothing=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive		all		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ivan forgot to take them out to the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Ivan						tree rules
2	not take out	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here	them = they				to the field	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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