Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

Mum was like "Don't tell the King" but why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: not be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	cop
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 tell	mark
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
5	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 why	cc
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tell	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	past · do-support	Mum					tell property	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 would kill them all

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	4 kill	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	the brothers	them = they					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

The brothers threatened to slay them, so they kept silent at all times

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 threatened	nsubj
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 slay	mark
5	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threatened	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slay	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threatened	conj
11	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kept	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 times	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 times	det
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	the brothers				tree rules
2	slay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	brothers = brother			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	keep	past	brothers = brother		time	silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The brothers threatened to slay them if they spoke a word

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 threatened	nsubj
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 slay	mark
5	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threatened	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slay	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 spoke	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slay	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	threaten	past	the brothers		tree rules
2	slay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	brothers = brother	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	brothers = brother	a word	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The brothers threatened to slay them

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 threatened	nsubj
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 slay	mark
5	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threatened	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	the brothers						tree rules
2	slay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	brothers = brother					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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