Test 4 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest…

So the youngest brother's bro-squad basically roasted him, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro squad · What happens: roast · To what, where: him

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1803 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest son's frog spins his linen» 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 roasted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squad	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 brother	case
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squad	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
8	squad	squad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roasted	nsubj
9	basically	basically	ADV	_	10 roasted	advmod
10	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 roasted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roasted	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	10 roasted	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 roasted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past	the youngest brother's bro squad	him = he				basically property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

They laughed at him

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

His brothers laughed and teased him for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brothers	nmod:poss
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 teased	cc
5	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 teased	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 hours	case
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	His brothers						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tease	past	His brothers not said here	him = he			hour		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The village girls laughed in his face and mocked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girls	compound
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mocked	cc
9	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the village girls					in his face	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme
2	mock	past	the village girls not said here	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

The village girls ignored him and walked off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girls	compound
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ignored	nsubj
4	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignored	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 walked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	the village girls	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	walk off	past	the village girls not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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