Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Ya, what did the Tsar say he'd give whoever saved her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ya, Tsar, whoever · What happens: do, say, give, save · To what, where: Ya · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Ya	Ya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ya	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsar	det
6	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 saved	nsubj
12	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 give	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saved	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ya		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Tsar		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	would	Tsar		tree rules
4	save	past	whoever	Ya	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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

a third of his kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kingdom	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kingdom	nmod:poss
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 third	nmod

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

Option 2

his gold and land

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 gold	nmod:poss
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 land	cc
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gold	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

half his power and tsardom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 power	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 power	nmod:poss
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tsardom	cc
5	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 power	conj

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

Option 4

his crown and half the land

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 crown	nmod:poss
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 land	cc
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 land	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		his = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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