Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

Were the Jews being real when they said don't get drunk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jews · What happens: be, say, do, not drink · To what, where: Jews · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1099 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scatters money» 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Jews	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Jews	det
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 real	nsubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 said	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	parataxis
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 drunk	advmod
11	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 drunk	aux:pass
12	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 do	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Jews		tree rules
2	is	gerund	the Jews		real property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Jews = jew			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not drink	infinitive · passive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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

Nope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they were being sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sneaky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sneaky	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sneaky	cop
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sneaky	cop
6	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					sneaky property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, they were being kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kind	cop
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					kind property	tree rules

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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