Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

so the devil asked the hatchet and the gimlet too, what did they say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: devil, hatchet · What happens: ask, say · To what, where: hatchet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 devil	det
3	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hatchet	det
6	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gimlet	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gimlet	det
9	gimlet	gimlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hatchet	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 say	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the devil	the hatchet and the gimlet					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hatchet=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	hatchet						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

No answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

They talked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	They						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They wouldn't tell him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	would	They		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They refused to speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 speak	mark
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	They						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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