Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith bur…

what did the demon make the smith promise, lol?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: demon · What happens: do, make · To what, where: smith promise

This is test 4 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 demon	det
4	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 promise	det
7	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	compound
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	make	present	the demon	the smith promise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product

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

Never to strike him with any tool, including the tongs and bellows, ever

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 strike	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 strike	mark
3	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strike	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 tool	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 tool	det
7	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strike	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tongs	punct
9	including	including	ADP	_	11 tongs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tongs	det
11	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strike	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bellows	cc
13	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tongs	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ever	punct
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 strike	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not strike	to-infinitive		him = he			ever	with any tool	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with tool=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Never to hit him with the hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 hit	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 hit	mark
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hammer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hammer	det
7	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hit	to-infinitive		him = he				with the hammer	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hammer=Instrument

Option 3

Never to lift the hammer again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 lift	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 lift	mark
3	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hammer	det
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 lift	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lift	to-infinitive		the hammer			again		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme

Option 4

Never to hit him with the hammer again, even if provoked by the lord

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 hit	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 hit	mark
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hammer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hammer	det
7	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	3 hit	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 provoked	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 provoked	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 provoked	mark
12	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hit	parataxis
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 lord	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lord	det
15	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 provoked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hit	to-infinitive		him = he			again	with the hammer	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hammer=Instrument
2	provoke a condition, not said to happen	participle						by the lord	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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