Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an…

Ok, so was he the one who gets tricked, or the tricker?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, trick · To what, where: one

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 450 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and Likho: a smith tricks an old woman, loses his hand, and runs home» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ok	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tricked	nsubj:pass
9	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tricked	aux:pass
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tricker	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 tricker	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tricker	det
14	tricker	tricker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the one or the tricker					tree rules
2	trick	present · passive		the one or the tricker					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

He got tricked, then tricked her

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	3 tricked	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	aux:pass
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tricked	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tricked	advmod
6	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive		He					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	trick	past		her = she			then		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

He was the tricker at first, but she tricked him back and he lost a hand

The tree, 16 words

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	4 tricker	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricker	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tricker	det
4	tricker	tricker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 tricker	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tricked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tricked	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tricked	nsubj
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricker	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tricked	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 tricked	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lost	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
15	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tricked	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the tricker	tree rules
2	trick back	past	she	him = he	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	lose	past	he	a hand	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He tricked her, then got tricked back

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 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tricked	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 tricked	advmod
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tricked	aux:pass
7	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tricked	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 tricked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	He	her = she					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	trick back	past · passive	He not said here				then		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»

Option 4

He tricked her, she tricked him

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 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tricked	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tricked	nsubj
6	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tricked	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	He	her = she					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	trick	past	she	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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