Test 15 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peas…

bro, what did the peasant do with the gold at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do · To what, where: peasant, end

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 451 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peasant buries Woe under a stone» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 gold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gold	det
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	the peasant					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peasant=Eventuality
2	do	present	bro				at the end	with the gold	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

gave it to the neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 neighbours	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbours	det
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		it	the neighbours				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to neighbour=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

carried it all to the rich brother's house in town for safekeeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 carried	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 brother	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carried	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carried	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 safekeeping	case
13	safekeeping	safekeeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past		it		town		to the rich brother's house; for safekeeping	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to house=Destination

Option 3

shovelled it into the cellar and then went to the pot-house to celebrate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shovelled	shovell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shovelled	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cellar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cellar	det
5	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shovelled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 shovelled	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 pot	punct
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 celebrate	mark
15	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	shovell	past	it	the cellar		tree rules
2	go	past		the pot house	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3	celebrate	to-infinitive				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

shovelled it into his cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shovelled	shovell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shovelled	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cellar	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cellar	nmod:poss
5	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shovelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shovell	past		it		his cellar			tree rules

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