Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

How'd the robbers end up running off, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers · What happens: end up, run off · To what, where: fam

This is test 6 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 end	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 end	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 end	xcomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 running	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	the robbers						tree rules
2	run off	gerund	the robbers not said here	fam					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Marko jumped up and they freaked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 freaked	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 freaked	nsubj
6	freaked	freak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	Marko						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freak	past	they						tree rules

Option 2

The moujik shot them with a gun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moujik	det
2	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shot	nsubj
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shot	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 gun	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gun	det
7	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	the moujik	them = they				with a gun	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with gun=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Marko jumped up like a madman and the robbers ran screaming out of the church

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 madman	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 madman	det
6	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 robbers	det
9	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	conj
11	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 ran	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 church	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 church	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	Marko		like a madman	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	the robbers			tree rules
3	scream speech: express	gerund	the robbers not said here	the church		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out church=Location

Option 4

The moujik yelled and they fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moujik	det
2	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelled	nsubj
3	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fled	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fled	nsubj
6	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 yelled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	the moujik						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flee	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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