Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Warlock: the Soldi…

Did the soldier get a reward after saving the young couple?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: get, save · To what, where: reward, young couple

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reward	det
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 saving	mark
8	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 get	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 couple	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 couple	amod
11	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saving	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the soldier	a reward					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus
2	save	gerund	the soldier not said here	the young couple					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=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

Yeah, some food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 food	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they gave him a big hug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hug	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hug	amod
8	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a big hug	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hug=Theme

Option 3

Yes, they gave him a thank-you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thank	det
7	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 you	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	they	a thank	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thank=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the family gave him loads of stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stuff	case
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the family	loads of stuff	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient load=Theme

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