Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

When the searchers came, what did the Simpleton hand them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: searchers, Simpleton · What happens: come, hand · To what, where: searchers

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 420 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birch, the gold, and the goat's head» 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 searchers	det
3	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hand	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 hand	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hand	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Simpleton	det
9	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hand	nsubj
10	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hand	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 hand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the searchers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hand	past · do-support	the Simpleton	searchers = searcher					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Destination they=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 Diachok's old hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Diachok	det
2	Diachok	Diachok	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Diachok	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hat	amod
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A goat's hoof, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoof	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 goat	case
4	hoof	hoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cap	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoof	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The goat's head, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 goat	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 up	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A goat's ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ear	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 goat	case
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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