Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the y…

Did Vasily just toss the sand away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: toss away · To what, where: sand

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 459 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Vasily and the Whirlwind: the youngest prince tricks Vikhor and frees his mother» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 toss	aux
2	Vasily	vasily	ADV	_	4 toss	advmod
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 toss	advmod
4	toss	toss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sand	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toss	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 toss	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 toss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss away	past · do-support		the sand				away, vasily property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=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

No, he buried it in snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 buried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 buried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buried	nsubj
4	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buried	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 snow	case
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	he	it		snow			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in snow=Destination

Option 2

Nope, he kept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, he burnt it in the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 burnt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burnt	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burnt	nsubj
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burnt	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stove	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past	he	it		the stove			tree rules

Option 4

No, he threw it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	he	it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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