Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

Why did the brothers put a goat in the cellar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: put · To what, where: goat, cellar

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 put	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 goat	det
7	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cellar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cellar	det
10	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	the brothers	a goat		the cellar			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goat=Theme in cellar=Destination

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

To fool the searchers into thinking the goat was the dead man, that's the whole play

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 searchers	det
4	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fool	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 thinking	mark
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 man	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goat	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 play	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 play	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 play	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 play	amod
18	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		the searchers	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent searcher=Patient
2	think speech: other	gerund		the goat	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot goat=Theme
3	is a	past		the dead man and the whole play	tree rules
4	is a	present	that	the whole play	tree rules

Option 2

To make the searchers think it was dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 searchers	det
4	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dinner	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dinner	cop
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the searchers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset searcher=Product
2	think speech: other	present			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	dinner	tree rules

Option 3

So the cops would be confused, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 confused	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cops	det
3	cops	cop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 confused	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 confused	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 confused	cop
6	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confused	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the cops					bro vocative; confused property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To fool the searchers, that's the play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 searchers	det
4	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fool	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 play	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 play	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 play	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 play	det
9	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		the searchers					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent searcher=Patient
2	is a	present	that	the play					tree rules

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