Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

When the Simpleton chopped the tree, what was the move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Simpleton, tree · What happens: chop, be · To what, where: tree, move

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 chopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simpleton	det
3	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 move	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 move	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 move	det
11	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	the Simpleton	the tree and the move					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	is a	past	the tree and the move	the move					tree rules

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

He went to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He hacked at it like a mad lumberjack bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hacked	nsubj
2	hacked	hack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hacked	obl
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 bro	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bro	det
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bro	amod
8	lumberjack	lumberjack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bro	compound
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hack	past	He					like a mad lumberjack bro; at it	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He went full beast mode with his hatchet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mode	amod
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mode	compound
5	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hatchet	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hatchet	nmod:poss
8	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He	full beast mode				with his hatchet	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mode=Theme

Option 4

He just sat down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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