Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

Dead cool, what did the soldier do after all that?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: soldier

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» 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	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 cool	advmod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cool	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cool	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 that	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 that	det
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the soldier					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality
2	do	present					after that		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

sold the horse to a farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sold	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 farmer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past		the horse	a farmer				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to farmer=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

gave his family a feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 family	nmod:poss
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feast	det
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		his family					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient feast=Theme

Option 3

went back to the merchant for more money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 went	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 merchant	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 went	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 money	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past						to the merchant result; for more money	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to merchant=Result

Option 4

built a new house for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 built	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past		a new house				for them = they	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent house=Product for they=Asset

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