Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and…

Fam, what happened to the money when they handed it out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam, they · What happens: happen, hand out · To what, where: Fam

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 476 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and a rich moujik's release» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 money	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 handed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 handed	nsubj
10	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 handed	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 handed	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Fam					to the money	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hand out	past	they	Fam					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

it doubled and grew into a huge pile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 grew	cc
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubled	conj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 pile	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pile	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pile	amod
8	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	past	it						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past						into a huge pile result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pile=Result

Option 2

it stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it kept growing bigger every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kept	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it				time	big property	tree rules
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it grew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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