Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

Okay, so what happened to the ox overnight?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	5 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ox	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ox	det
8	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
9	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to the ox; overnight property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 wolves got it, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolves	det
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
6	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 got	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the wolves	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Wolves ate the whole ox and then went home, it was gone for good

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ox	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ox	amod
5	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 good	case
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Wolves	the whole ox			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient
2	go	past	Wolves not said here		then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	ox			for good; gone property	tree rules

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

Wolves ate it, it was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Wolves	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	past	it					gone property	tree rules

Option 4

Wolves came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Wolves						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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