Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

How did the brothers deal with the dead Diachok?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: do, deal

This is test 8 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deal	nsubj
5	deal	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 Diachok	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Diachok	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Diachok	amod
9	Diachok	Diachok	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 deal	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	deal	present	the brothers					with the dead Diachok	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diachok=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They buried him in the ground, 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	2 buried	nsubj
2	buried	bury	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 buried	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ground	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	They	him = he		the ground and bro			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in ground=Destination

Option 2

They dropped him in a pit, no cap, 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	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	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 dropped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pit	det
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pit	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	They	him = he		a pit and bro			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pit=Destination

Option 3

They tossed him in the old well, 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	2 tossed	nsubj
2	tossed	toss	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 tossed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 well	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 well	amod
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 well	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	They	him = he		the old well and bro			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in well=Destination

Option 4

They hid him, 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	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	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 hid	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	They	him = he				bro vocative	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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