Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

Ok, in the chapel, what were the corpses fighting over?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapel, corpses · What happens: be, fight over · To what, where: corpses

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 478 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: the moujik wins back the coffin-lid and saves two dead lads» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 chapel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chapel	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapel	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chapel	det
5	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 corpses	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 corpses	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 corpses	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 corpses	det
10	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chapel	appos
11	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 corpses	acl
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 fighting	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chapel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the chapel	the corpses					tree rules
2	fight over	gerund	the corpses not said here					over property	vn battle-36.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Who gets to eat the soldier and who must leave the chapel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gets	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leave	cc
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 leave	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 leave	aux
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chapel	det
12	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	get	present		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	eat	to-infinitive	the soldier	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
3	leave	must	the chapel	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapel=Theme

Option 2

Which corpse gets the first bite of the soldier's flesh tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 corpse	det
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bite	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 bite	amod
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 flesh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flesh	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 soldier	case
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nmod
12	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	which corpse	the first bite of the soldier's flesh			tonight		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bite=Stimulus
2	bite			the soldier's flesh					nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Who will bury the soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 bury	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	aux
3	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bury	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	future		the soldier					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Who gets to eat the soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gets	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	eat	to-infinitive		the soldier					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient

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