Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

Bro, why did Mark even send Vassili to the Serpent King?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: send · To what, where: Vassili, Serpent King

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 send	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
5	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 send	advmod
7	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
11	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 King	compound
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support		Vassili	the Serpent King			Bro vocative	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vassili=Theme to king=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

To get the rent money and also to be rid of a rival forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
4	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	compound
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rid	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	10 rid	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 rid	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 rid	cop
10	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 rival	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rival	det
13	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rid	obl
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		the rent money				forever property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive						of a rival; rid property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To win a bet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bet	det
4	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		a bet					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To get rent and get rid of him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 get	cc
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
6	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		rent					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rent=Stimulus
2	get	infinitive						rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

To test his courage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 courage	nmod:poss
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		his courage					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme

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