Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith bur…

yo, did the smith actually fry the lord or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, fry · To what, where: smith, lord

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 422 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith burns the seigneur, then the Demon saves him» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fry	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smith	det
5	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 fry	advmod
7	fry	fry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lord	det
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fry	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 lord	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the smith					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Eventuality
2	fry	present		the lord				actually property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lord=Patient

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

Nope, he only pretended to fry him, then the lord ran off laughing into the forest

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 pretended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pretended	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pretended	advmod
5	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fry	mark
7	fry	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pretended	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fry	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 ran	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lord	det
12	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretended	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 ran	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pretend	past	he				tree rules
2	fry	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	run off	past	the lord			then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	the lord not said here		the forest		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into forest=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, straight up cooked him in the furnace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cooked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cooked	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 cooked	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	5 cooked	advmod
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cooked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 furnace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 furnace	det
9	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past		him = he				in the furnace; straight property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient in furnace=Instrument

Option 3

Yeah, he cooked him in the furnace and then dumped him in the milk pail

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cooked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cooked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooked	nsubj
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 furnace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 furnace	det
8	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dumped	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 dumped	advmod
11	dumped	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cooked	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dumped	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 pail	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pail	det
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pail	compound
16	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	he	him = he				in the furnace	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient in furnace=Instrument
2	dump	past	he not said here	him = he		the milk pail	then		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pail=Trajectory

Option 4

Nah, he just tossed him in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tossed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 tossed	advmod
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tossed	obl

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

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