Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

So did the whole coffin thing actually work, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: whole coffin thing

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 419 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant tries to dodge paying one copeck and gets tricked» 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	So	so	ADV	_	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	6 thing	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
5	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 work	advmod
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the whole coffin thing work and fr					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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

Yeah, the moujik was in there instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moujik	det
4	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 there	case
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 there	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moujik					instead, there property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it failed because the moujik saw through the trick and opened the coffin lid

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 failed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 failed	nsubj
4	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moujik	det
7	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 failed	advcl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 trick	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trick	det
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 opened	cc
13	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 failed	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lid	det
15	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lid	compound
16	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fail	past	it			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the moujik		the trick	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	open	past		the coffin lid		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme

Option 3

Nope, the robbers opened it and saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 opened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the robbers	it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	see	past	the robbers not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Marko was in there, so it worked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 there	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 there	case
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 worked	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 worked	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worked	nsubj
10	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Marko					there property	tree rules
2	work	past	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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