Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

bro, why was the Tsar being such a cheapskate at the bazaar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tsar · What happens: be · To what, where: cheapskate, bazaar

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1102 «Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar promises Satan what awaits him at home, and the children are hidden in a ditch» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cheapskate	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 bro	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cheapskate	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cheapskate	nsubj
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cheapskate	cop
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 cheapskate	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cheapskate	det
10	cheapskate	cheapskate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 bazaar	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bazaar	det
13	bazaar	bazaar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cheapskate	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cheapskate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Tsar	such cheapskate		the bazaar		bro vocative	tree rules

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

He always did his own shopping

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	3 did	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shopping	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shopping	amod
6	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	He	his own shopping				always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopping=Eventuality
2	shop		his = he						nom shopping «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He hated paying the sellers

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hated	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sellers	det
5	sellers	seller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	He						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	pay not said to happen	gerund	He not said here	the sellers					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seller=Asset

Option 3

He always bargained hard with every seller in the market

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	3 bargained	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 bargained	advmod
3	bargained	bargain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 bargained	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 seller	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 seller	det
7	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bargained	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 market	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 market	det
10	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bargained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bargain	past	He			the market		with every seller; always, hard property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with seller=Co-Agent

Option 4

He didn't trust any merchant

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	4 trust	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trust	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 trust	advmod
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	past · do-support	He	any merchant					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme

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