Test 7 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

what did the tavern guys do while he snored?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: guys, he · What happens: do, snore · To what, where: tavern

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tavern	det
4	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tavern	acl:relcl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 snored	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 snored	nsubj
9	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the tavern	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tavern=Eventuality
2	do	present	guys	the tavern not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tavern=Eventuality
3	snore	past	he		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

swapped his sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sack	nmod:poss
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past		his sack					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

Option 2

stole his purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 purse	nmod:poss
3	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past		his purse					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location purse=Theme

Option 3

swapped his sack for an old one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sack	nmod:poss
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swapped	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 one	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past		his sack				for a old one	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent sack=Theme for one=Co-Theme

Option 4

stole his boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boots	nmod:poss
3	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past		his boots					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boot=Theme

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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