Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

why are the devils making him haul wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: devils, him · What happens: make, haul · To what, where: him, wood

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 416 «Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha visits the Devil's palace and finds his drowned father there as a horse» 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	5 making	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 making	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 devils	det
4	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 making	nsubj
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 making	obj
7	haul	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 making	xcomp
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 haul	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 making	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	the devils	him = he					tree rules
2	haul	infinitive	him = he not said here	wood					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause he drowned drunk, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drowned	nsubj
3	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	acl:relcl
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drowned	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fr	punct
6	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	he	cause and fr not said here				drunk property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient

Option 2

cause he drowned drunk and they want to punish him, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drowned	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drowned	nsubj
3	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drowned	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 want	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drowned	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 punish	mark
9	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 punish	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fr	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drown	past	cause	fr	drunk property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	they			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	punish not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	cause		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

cause he sinned, fr, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sinned	nsubj
3	sinned	sin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	acl:relcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fr	punct
5	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sin	past	he	cause and fr and bro not said here					vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme

Option 4

cause he was drunk, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drunk	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drunk	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	cop
4	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drunk	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 drunk	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cause					drunk property	tree rules

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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