Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

So the peasants burned him with brooms and shovels, lol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: peasants · What happens: burn · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 479 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldier burns the wicked Warlock and the village is saved.» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 burned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasants	det
3	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 brooms	case
7	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shovels	cc
9	shovels	shovel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brooms	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 burned	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the peasants	him = he				with brooms and shovels	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with broom=Instrument

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they chased the snakes and crows into the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chased	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snakes	det
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chased	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crows	cc
8	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 snakes	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	they	the snakes and crows		the fire			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent snake=Theme into fire=Trajectory

Option 2

Nope, they dragged him to the river and drowned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drowned	cc
10	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drowned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	they	him = he		the river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to river=Destination
2	drown	past	they not said here	him = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, they threw the Warlock's corpse into the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Warlock	det
6	Warlock	Warlock	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 corpse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Warlock	case
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	they	the Warlock's corpse				into the stream result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer corpse=Theme into stream=Result

Option 4

Yes, with brooms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 brooms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brooms	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 brooms	case
4	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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