Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

Which action did the moujik perform immediately after ploughing half of the field?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action · What happens: perform, plough · To what, where: half

This is exam question 1 of lesson 491 «Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasant saves his crust, a little demon steals it and then serves him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perform	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perform	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moujik	det
5	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perform	nsubj
6	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	6 perform	advmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 ploughing	mark
9	ploughing	plough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 perform	advcl
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 ploughing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 field	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 half	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 perform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · do-support	which action					immediately property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plough	gerund	which action not said here	half of the field					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent half=Initial_Location

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

He ploughed the remaining half at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ploughed	nsubj
2	ploughed	plough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 half	det
4	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 half	amod
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 ploughed	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 ploughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plough	past	He	the remaining half					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent half=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He returned his horse to the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stable	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	He	his horse		the stable			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to stable=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He unharnessed his horse and turned it out to graze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 unharnessed	nsubj
2	unharnessed	unharness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unharnessed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turned	cc
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unharnessed	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 turned	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 graze	mark
10	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	unharness	past	He	his horse	tree rules
2	turn out	past	He not said here	horse	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	graze	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He sold his horse to a neighbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 neighbour	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 neighbour	det
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	his horse	a neighbour				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to neighbour=Recipient

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