Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

the cudgel went wild on the townsfolk, right? what happened after?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cudgel · What happens: go, happen after · To what, where: townsfolk

This is test 6 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cudgel	det
2	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 townsfolk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 townsfolk	det
7	townsfolk	townsfolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	3 went	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	after	after	ADP	_	12 happened	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the cudgel			the townsfolk		wild property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on townsfolk=Location
2	happen after	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

they all got knocked down like corn bundles and then the fool walked home happily

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj:pass
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 they	det
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	aux:pass
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 knocked	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bundles	case
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bundles	compound
8	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knocked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walked	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 walked	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fool	det
12	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 walked	advmod
15	happily	happily	ADV	_	13 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past · passive		they				like corn bundles	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
2	walk	past	the fool				then	happily, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they all fell down in the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 fell	advmod
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 fell	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	they			the street			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in street=Location

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

they all got knocked down like corn bundles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj:pass
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 knocked	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	aux:pass
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 knocked	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bundles	case
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bundles	compound
8	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past · passive		they				like corn bundles	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

Option 4

they fell over like sacks of grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 sacks	case
5	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grain	case
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sacks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	past	they					like sacks of grain; over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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