Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peas…

bruh, how did the peasant end up with nothing but his wits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peasant · What happens: do, end up

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 end	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 wits	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wits	nmod:poss
13	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nothing	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the peasant					with nothing	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 drank away his cottage and land

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 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 drank	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cottage	nmod:poss
5	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cottage	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink away	past	He	his cottage and land				away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Patient

Option 2

Woe made him drink away everything, and then the rich brother took the cottage and cart too

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 drink	advmod
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 drink	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 took	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brother	det
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cottage	det
15	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cart	cc
17	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cottage	conj
18	too	too	ADV	_	13 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Woe	him = he			tree rules
2	drink away	infinitive	him = he not said here	everything		away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	take	past	the rich brother	the cottage and cart	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme

Option 3

Woe took all his money away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 money	nmod:poss
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Woe	Woe's money				away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Woe made him drink away everything he had

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 made	advmod
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 made	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make away	past	Woe	him = he	away property	tree rules
2	drink	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Woe			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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