Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Yo, why'd the rich dude even beat up the icon, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: beat up · To what, where: rich dude

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1107 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: the boy buys the holy image and is sent to the church» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 beat	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dude	amod
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beat	obl
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 beat	advmod
9	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 beat	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 icon	det
12	icon	icon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 real	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 real	case
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 real	case
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beat	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	present		the rich dude					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location icon=Theme

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

cause it stood surety and flaked on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flaked	cc
6	flaked	flake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	stand	past	it	surety		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surety=Stimulus
3	flake	participle			on him = he	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

cause it wouldn't pay him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pay	advmod
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pay	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not pay back	would	it	him = he					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

Option 3

cause the icon had stood surety for the rouble and then it flaked and cracked on him

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 icon	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 icon	det
3	icon	icon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	aux
5	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 rouble	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rouble	det
9	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flaked	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 flaked	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flaked	nsubj
13	flaked	flake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cracked	cc
15	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flaked	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	stand	past · perfect	the cause icon	surety		for the rouble	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for rouble=Attribute
3	flake	past	icon		then		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	crack	past	icon not said here			on him = he	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location

Option 4

cause the icon was holy and he didn't want to pray before it at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 icon	det
3	icon	icon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 holy	cop
5	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 want	advmod
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pray	mark
12	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pray	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 pray	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the icon			holy property	tree rules
3	not want	past · do-support	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	pray not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	all	before icon		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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