Test 5 · ★ · Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell…

fr though, how did the whip thing even end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do · To what, where: whip thing

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1134 «Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell and the princess becomes human» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	though	though	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 end	advmod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the whip thing			end	though property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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

It flicked the pig to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flicked	nsubj
2	flicked	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flicked	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flick	past	It	the pig		bits			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pig=Theme to bit=Destination

Option 2

It whipped the pig so hard that it fell apart in the courtyard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whipped	nsubj
2	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whipped	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 whipped	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whipped	advcl
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 courtyard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 courtyard	det
13	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	past	It	the pig				hard property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent pig=Material
2	fall apart	past	pig			the courtyard		apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It flicked the pig to bits and the serpents ran off in a hurry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flicked	nsubj
2	flicked	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flicked	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flicked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 serpents	det
9	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flicked	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hurry	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hurry	det
14	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flick	past	It	the pig		bits			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pig=Theme to bit=Destination
2	run off	past	the serpents			a hurry			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It knocked the pig down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	It	the pig					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pig=Patient

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