Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

Yo, the prince got pulled out the hole, no cap, wild stuff

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pull out · To what, where: prince

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» 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	_	6 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulled	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pulled	aux:pass
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 pulled	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hole	det
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulled	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stuff	punct
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stuff	amod
15	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past · passive		the prince					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

The brothers buried him alive, that's wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buried	nsubj
3	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buried	obj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buried	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wild	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 wild	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wild	cop
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	the brothers	him = he				alive property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	present	that					wild property	tree rules

Option 2

His brothers said he was dead, bad news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brothers	nmod:poss
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 news	punct
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 news	amod
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	His brothers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

Brothers ditched him, rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ditched	nsubj
2	ditched	ditch	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 ditched	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rough	punct
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ditched	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	past	Brothers	him = he					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The brothers left him down there, proper gutting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 left	compound:prt
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 left	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gutting	punct
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 gutting	advmod
9	gutting	gut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 left	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave down	past	the brothers	him = he		there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	gut	gerund						properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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