Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

How did the rogues end up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rogues · What happens: do, end up

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rogues	det
4	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the rogues						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Captured by the king and tied in sacks for trial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 king	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Captured	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tied	cc
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Captured	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 sacks	case
8	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tied	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 trial	case
10	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	participle						by the king	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tie	participle				sacks		for trial	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Robbed of all their gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gold	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Robbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	participle						of their gold	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of gold=Source

Option 3

Tied in sacks, thrown in the river and never seen again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 sacks	case
3	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tied	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thrown	punct
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sacks	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seen	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 seen	advmod
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thrown	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tie	participle		sacks		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	throw	participle	sacks not said here	the river		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in river=Destination
3	not see	participle			again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tied in sacks and drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 sacks	case
3	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tied	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drowned	cc
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle				sacks			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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