Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

The King goes mental at the brothers, what did he do then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: go, do · To what, where: mental brothers

This is test 3 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brothers	amod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 brothers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 brothers	acl:relcl
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 do	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the King					at the mental brothers	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at brother=Location
2	do	past · do-support	King	the mental brothers			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

He forgave them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgave	nsubj
2	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	He	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He gave them a kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kingdom	det
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	a kingdom	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient kingdom=Theme

Option 3

He sorted them out his own way, right proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sorted	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 proper	advmod
10	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 sorted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	He	them = they				his own way obl; properly property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He sorted them out his way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sorted	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sorted	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past	He	them = they				his way obl:unmarked	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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