Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…

Wait, how'd he finally get rid of them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, get

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 453 «Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks the Zluidni into the river, and Friday punishes a spinner» 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 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
8	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rid	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	would	he					finally, rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 right answer

He shoved them off a bridge

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 shoved	nsubj
2	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shoved	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 shoved	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove off	past	He	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination bridge=Theme

Option 2

He tricked them into a deep lake at night

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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 lake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lake	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lake	amod
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	He	them = they			night	into a deep lake result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into lake=Result

Option 3

He tossed them in a pond

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 tossed	nsubj
2	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pond	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pond	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	He	them = they		a pond			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pond=Destination

Option 4

He drowned them

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 drowned	nsubj
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drowned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	He	them = they					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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