Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar…

his wife's kinda hot, right, like the fairest in the world?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: world

This is test 7 · ★ 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fairest	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	11 fairest	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fairest	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 fairest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fairest	det
11	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 hot	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fairest	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	his wife					hot, kinda property	tree rules
2	be		his wife not said here			the world			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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the Tsar said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Tsar						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, the Tsar said she was the fairest in the whole world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fairest	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fairest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fairest	det
9	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 said	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 world	amod
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fairest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Tsar						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Tsar			the whole world		fair property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, the stove said she was ugly and the Tsar agreed with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stove	det
4	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ugly	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ugly	cop
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 agreed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tsar	det
11	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 agreed	nsubj
12	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 agreed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the stove		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	stove	ugly property	tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	past	the Tsar	with it	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent

Option 4

Nope, the Tsar lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 lied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lied	nsubj
5	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the Tsar						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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