Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the…

wait, what did the man say he would do with the cattle, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, man · What happens: wait, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 436 «Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the King opens the coffers and his son must be given up» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 cattle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cattle	det
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cattle	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the man		tree rules
3	do	would	man	with the cattle and bro	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

pack the cattle away and return them to the sea floor at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cattle	det
3	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pack	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 pack	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 return	cc
6	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 pack	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 return	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floor	compound
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack away	imperative	you not said here		the cattle			away property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme cattle=Destination
2	return	infinitive	you not said here	cattle		the sea floor	dawn		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to floor=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

return them to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 return	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the sea			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to sea=Destination

Option 3

pack all the cattle away into the coffer for a price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cattle	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cattle	det
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pack	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 pack	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 coffer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coffer	det
8	coffer	coffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pack	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 price	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 price	det
11	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	imperative	you not said here	all cattle		the coffer		for a price; away property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme into coffer=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

pack all the cattle away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cattle	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cattle	det
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pack	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 pack	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	imperative	you not said here		all cattle			away property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme cattle=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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