Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Bro, did the poor guy's wife even get paid back?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, pay back · To what, where: wife

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guy	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guy	amod
6	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 guy	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 paid	advmod
10	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 paid	aux:pass
11	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 paid	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the poor guy's wife					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	pay back	infinitive · passive	Bro not said here						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

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

nah, the husband was already dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the husband					dead property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, the husband had died a while back and she never saw a kopek from the rich guy

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 saw	advmod
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 kopek	det
15	kopek	kopek	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 guy	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 guy	det
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 guy	amod
19	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die back	past · perfect	the husband				while		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not see	past	she	a kopek		the rich guy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kopek=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the husband was already dead and buried, so the rich man kept the rouble

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 buried	cc
9	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dead	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 kept	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rouble	det
17	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the husband		dead property	tree rules
2	bury	participle	the husband not said here			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	the rich man	the rouble		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme

Option 4

nah, the rouble went to the priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rouble	det
4	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 priest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 priest	det
8	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the rouble			the priest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to priest=Initial_Location

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