Test 4 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…
fr, what did the guards do with the hat and cloak?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, guards · What happens: do
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guards | det |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hat | det |
| 10 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cloak | cc |
| 12 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hat | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the guards | with the hat and cloak | 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
chucked them down the deep stone well in the yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chucked | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 chucked | obj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 chucked | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chucked | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 chucked | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 yard | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 yard | det |
| 10 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chucked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck down | past | them = they | in the yard; well property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination stone=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
chucked them down the well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chucked | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 chucked | obj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 chucked | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 well | det |
| 5 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chucked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck down | past | them = they | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination well=Theme |
Option 3
dropped them in the moat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 dropped | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 moat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moat | det |
| 5 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dropped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | them = they | the moat | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in moat=Destination |
Option 4
buried them in the field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 buried | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 buried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | them = they | the field | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in field=Destination |
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