Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Golden Mermaid: the Prince catche…

how did the brothers kill him, was it sus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, it · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1935 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Golden Mermaid: the Prince catches the mermaid, but his jealous brothers kill him and the wolf brings him back to life» 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	5 kill	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kill	nsubj
5	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sus	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sus	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sus	nsubj
10	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			how property	tree rules
2	kill	present	the brothers	him = he		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	it		suspect property	tree rules

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

they lured him into the wood on a hunting trip and then beat and stabbed him with knives

The tree, 18 words

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 lured	nsubj
2	lured	lure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lured	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lured	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 trip	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trip	det
9	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trip	compound
10	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lured	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beat	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 beat	advmod
13	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lured	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stabbed	cc
15	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lured	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stabbed	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 knives	case
18	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lure	past	they	him = he		into the wood result; on a hunting trip	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into wood=Result
2	beat	present	they not said here		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stab	past	they not said here	him = he		with knives	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with knife=Instrument

Option 2

they hit him with clubs in town

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 clubs	case
5	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hit	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	they	him = he		town		with clubs	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with club=Instrument

Option 3

they ambushed him on the road in the wood and beat him with clubs until he stopped moving

The tree, 18 words

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 ambushed	nsubj
2	ambushed	ambush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ambushed	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ambushed	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ambushed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beat	cc
11	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ambushed	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beat	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 clubs	case
14	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beat	obl
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 stopped	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stopped	nsubj
17	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ambushed	advcl
18	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ambush	past	they	him = he	the road	in the wood	vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	beat	infinitive	they not said here	him = he		with clubs	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with club=Instrument
3	stop	past	he				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	move	gerund	he not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they beat him to death in the wood

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 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	they	him = he	death			in the wood	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Recipient in wood=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1935-pg7277-part72/t9/