Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

What did the searchers do after that, in the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: searchers · What happens: do · To what, where: end

This is test 11 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 searchers	det
4	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 did	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 end	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past					in the end; after that		tree rules
2	do	present	the searchers						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They dragged him outside, spat in his face, and then bounced back home slowly

The tree, 14 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 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	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 dragged	obj
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 dragged	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spat	punct
6	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spat	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bounced	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bounced	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 bounced	advmod
13	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dragged	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 bounced	advmod
15	home	home	ADV	_	13 bounced	advmod
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 bounced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	They	him = he				spat in his face obl; outside property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	bounce back	past	They not said here				then	home, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They laughed and walked off, fam

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walked	cc
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 walked	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct
7	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk off	past	They not said here	fam					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They spat in his face, then bounced and told the whole village about it

The tree, 14 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 spat	nsubj
2	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bounced	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 bounced	advmod
8	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spat	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bounced	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 village	amod
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 village	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spat	present	They		his face			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bounce	past				then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past		the whole village			about village	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent village=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They spat in his face and bounced

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 spat	nsubj
2	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bounced	cc
7	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spat	present	They			his face			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bounce	participle	They not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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