Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

so what did the devil finally get the Tsar to promise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tsar · What happens: do, get, promise · To what, where: devil, Tsar

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 devil	det
5	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tsar	det
9	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 promise	mark
11	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the devil		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Eventuality
2	get	present		the Tsar	finally property	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	the Tsar not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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 gold he had buried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buried	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buried	aux
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gold	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · perfect · passive	the gold not said here	he					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Whatever was waiting at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 waiting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	Whatever			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 3

Whatever was waiting for him at home, and all his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 waiting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gold	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gold	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 gold	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gold	nmod:poss
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	Whatever	his gold		home		for him = he	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 4

Whatever he owned at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 owned	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owned	nsubj
3	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	he	Whatever		home			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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