Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

Mate, what did Simon call the rogues?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Simon · What happens: call · To what, where: Mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rogues	det
8	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	Simon	Mate					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme rogue=Result

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

Silly donkeys who never listen to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 donkeys	amod
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 listen	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 listen	advmod
5	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 donkeys	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	present	Silly donkeys					to anyone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to anyone=Theme

Option 2

Silly, greedy donkeys who deserved every bit of their ruin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 donkeys	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Silly	punct
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 donkeys	amod
4	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserved	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 deserved	nsubj
6	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deserved	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ruin	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ruin	nmod:poss
11	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	past	Silly greedy donkeys	every bit of donkeys's ruin					tree rules
2	ruin		donkeys = donkey						nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

Silly donkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 donkeys	amod
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Stupid rascals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rascals	amod
2	rascals	rascal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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