Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Honestly, why was the rich guy so mad at the poor guy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: rich guy

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 guy	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 guy	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guy	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guy	amod
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 mad	advmod
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guy	amod
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 guy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 guy	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 guy	amod
13	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mad	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 guy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rich guy				honestly property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the rouble never came back to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rouble	det
2	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past	the rouble		him = he				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

Option 2

the rouble never came back to him, and the poor man never paid the interest

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rouble	det
2	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 paid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 paid	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paid	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 paid	advmod
14	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 interest	det
16	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past	the rouble		him = he				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	not pay	past	the poor man	the interest					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset

Option 3

the rouble was lost on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rouble	det
2	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		the rouble		the road			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

the poor man never paid him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay back	past	the poor man	him = he					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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