Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

What was the vibe when his brothers found out about the ox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, find out · To what, where: vibe

This is test 3 · ★ 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	4 vibe	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vibe	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vibe	det
4	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 found	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod:poss
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vibe	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 found	compound:prt
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 ox	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ox	det
12	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 vibe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the vibe					tree rules
2	find out	past	his brothers					about the ox	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ox=Topic

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

They laughed at him so hard

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	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They					at him = he; hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They were teasing him hard, bro

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	3 teasing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 teasing	aux
3	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 teasing	obj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 teasing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teasing	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	past · progressive	They	him = he				bro vocative; hard property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They were roasting him so hard

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	3 roasting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roasting	aux
3	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 roasting	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 roasting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past · progressive	They	him = he				hard property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Total roast, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roast	amod
2	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roast	conj

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

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