Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

wait, why were the townspeople so mad at the fool anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: townspeople

This is test 7 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 townspeople	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 townspeople	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 townspeople	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 townspeople	det
6	townspeople	townspeople	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 mad	advmod
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 townspeople	amod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 fool	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fool	det
11	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	obl
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 wait	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					anyway property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the townspeople					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

he hit them and broke the bread

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 broke	cc
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hit	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
2	break	past	he not said here	the bread					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Patient

Option 2

he knocked them down and wrecked the whole town with his cudgel and their houses too

The tree, 16 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 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrecked	cc
6	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 cudgel	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cudgel	nmod:poss
12	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 houses	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 houses	nmod:poss
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knocked	conj
16	too	too	ADV	_	2 knocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	he	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	wreck	past	he not said here	the whole town				with his cudgel	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent town=Patient with cudgel=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he knocked them down and wrecked the town

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 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrecked	cc
6	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	he	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	wreck	past	he not said here	the town					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient

Option 4

he beat them and broke their carts

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 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 broke	cc
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 carts	nmod:poss
7	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	he	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	break	past	he not said here	their carts					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cart=Patient

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