Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

how did the fool get the townspeople to stop chasing him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fool · What happens: get, stop, chase · To what, where: townspeople, fool

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 467 «Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's pike-magic pails, sledge and cudgel make the town angry, so they plan a trick» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 townspeople	det
7	townspeople	townspeople	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chasing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the fool	the townspeople	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer townspeople=Stimulus
2	stop	to-infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	chase	gerund		fool	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 didn't, they just lay there knocked out until the King's guards came and carried them home

The tree, 19 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lay	advmod
9	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lay	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 knocked	compound:prt
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 guards	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 King	case
15	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knocked	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carried	cc
18	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carried	obj
20	home	home	ADV	_	18 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	they		there		tree rules
3	knock out	participle	they not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	the King's guards				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	past	they not said here	guards = guard		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he didn't, they just lay there knocked out

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lay	advmod
9	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lay	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not do	past	he		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	they	there	tree rules
3	knock out	participle	they not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the King's guards arrested him in the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 guards	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arrested	nsubj
5	arrested	arrest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 arrested	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrest	past	the King's guards	King		the street			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

he stopped and bowed to 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 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bowed	cc
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	bow	past	he not said here		them = they				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme

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