Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

Why did they sack up the shepherd anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: sack up · To what, where: shepherd

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1907 «Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong man and are drowned themselves» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sack	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sack	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sack	nsubj
4	sack	sack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sack	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sack	obj
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 sack	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sack up	past · do-support	they	the shepherd				anyway property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme

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

Simon promised them a golden reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reward	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reward	amod
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Simon	a golden reward	them = they				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal reward=Theme

Option 2

Simon wanted revenge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Simon	revenge					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Simon said the king would give his daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Simon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	would	the king		king's daughter				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme

Option 4

They wanted a bag of gold coins

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bag	det
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 coins	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coins	compound
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bag	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	a bag of gold coins					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bag=Theme

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