Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

Lowkey, what did Vassili do to the ferryman at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Vassili · What happens: do · To what, where: end

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 ferryman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ferryman	det
9	ferryman	ferryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Vassili				at the end	to the ferryman; Lowkey vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice

Set him free from rowing by taking his oar and promising to row himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Set	obj
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Set	xcomp
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 rowing	mark
5	rowing	row	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Set	advcl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 taking	mark
7	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Set	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 oar	nmod:poss
9	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promising	cc
11	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 taking	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 row	mark
13	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promising	xcomp
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 row	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	him = he	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
2	row	gerund	you not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	you not said here	his oar		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	gerund	you not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	row not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	himself = he		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Set him free from rowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Set	obj
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Set	xcomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 rowing	case
5	rowing	rowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	imperative	you not said here	him = he		rowing		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

Option 3

Sent him to war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		him = he		war			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to war=Destination

Option 4

Made him a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		a king	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product

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