Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

what was up with the axes, were they chopping by themselves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: axes · What happens: chop

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 chopping	obl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	acl:relcl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 axes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 axes	det
6	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chopping	aux
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chopping	nsubj
10	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 themselves	case
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 chopping	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 chopping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past · progressive	axes = ax					by axes = ax	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by themselves=Location

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

nah, they were just lying there, the fool had to chop everything himself with his hands

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lying	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 had	advcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lying	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fool	det
10	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 chop	mark
13	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 chop	obj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 everything	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 hands	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	they		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the fool				tree rules
3	chop	to-infinitive	the fool not said here	everything		with fool's hands	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent everything=Patient with hand=Instrument

Option 2

yep, one axe felled the trees and the other axe cut up the wood into logs for the fool

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 felled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 axe	nummod
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felled	nsubj
5	felled	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 felled	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wood	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 axe	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 axe	amod
11	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wood	nsubj
12	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wood	amod
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felled	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 logs	case
17	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 felled	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 fool	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fool	det
20	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fell	past	one axe	the trees	logs	for the fool	tree rules
2	cut up	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	wood		the other axe				tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, one felled, one cut up the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 felled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 felled	nsubj
4	felled	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cut	nsubj:pass
7	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 felled	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fell	past	one						tree rules
2	cut up	participle · passive		one					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product

Option 4

nah, the fool did all the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 work	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 work	det
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the fool	all work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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