Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

Lol, did the Unlucky Days climb into the water-skin by themselves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Unlucky Days · What happens: climb · To what, where: water skin

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1129 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal saves the brothers from Wednesday and the youngest wins the Tsar's favour» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Days	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Days	det
5	Unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Days	amod
6	Days	Day	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 climb	nsubj
7	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 skin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 skin	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skin	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climb	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 themselves	case
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 climb	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 climb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	the Unlucky Days			the water skin		by themselves = they	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into skin=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

No, he tricked them in with honey and sealed the skin with wax at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 honey	case
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 honey	case
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sealed	cc
10	sealed	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricked	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 skin	det
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sealed	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 wax	case
14	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skin	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 sealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	them = they		honey			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	seal	past	he not said here	the skin				with wax	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with wax=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, he tricked them in to hide them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hide	case
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hide	mark
8	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tricked	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	them = they					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	hide	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Yes, they jumped in gladly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 jumped	compound:prt
6	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	4 jumped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump in	past	they					gladly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, he tricked them in with a song and then tied the top shut

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 tricked	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 song	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 song	det
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tied	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tied	advmod
12	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricked	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shut	det
14	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shut	amod
15	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tied	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick in	past	he	them = they				with a song	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	tie	past	he not said here				then	shut property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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