Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

why'd the pails just wander home like that, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pails, you · What happens: wander, innit

This is test 3 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wander	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 wander	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pails	det
4	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wander	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wander	advmod
6	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 innit	advcl
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 wander	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 wander	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wander	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	present	the pails					like that; home property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

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

cause the fool said the magic words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fool	det
3	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	say speech: assert	past	the fool	the magic words					tree rules

Option 2

cause the pike moved them home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 moved	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pike	det
3	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	nsubj
4	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moved	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive	the pike not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	move	past	the pike	them = they				home property	tree rules

Option 3

cause the fool shouted at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fool	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fool	det
3	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	shout speech: express	past	the cause fool					at them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the wind pushed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the wind	them = they					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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