Test 12 · ★ · Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part…

Dude, what does the Lisun do with the wolves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, Lisun · What happens: do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 485 «Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part 77: St. Andrew, St. George and St. Nicholas each help or punish people in their own way» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lisun	det
6	Lisun	Lisun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wolves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolves	det
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Dude						tree rules
2	do	present	the Lisun					with the wolves	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 · ← Mova's choice

lets them roam free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 lets	obj
3	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 lets	xcomp
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roam	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present		them = they					tree rules
2	roam	infinitive	them = they not said here					free property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

eats them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present		them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

guards the flock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flock	det
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present		the flock					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

herds them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	herds	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 herds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	present		them = they					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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