Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

So the kid just bought the icon with one rouble, huh?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: buy · To what, where: icon

This is test 3 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 bought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 bought	advmod
5	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 icon	det
7	icon	icon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 rouble	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 rouble	nummod
10	rouble	rouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 icon	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huh	punct
12	huh	huh	INTJ	_	5 bought	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	the kid	the icon				with one rouble	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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

yup, he stole it from the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stole	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	yup		the church		yup vocative	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from church=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yup, straight from his dad's stash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stash	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 stash	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 stash	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stash	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dad	case
8	stash	stash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stash		his dad						nom stash «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yup, straight from his dad's stash, and he didn't even ask first

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stash	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 stash	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 stash	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stash	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dad	case
8	stash	stash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ask	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ask	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ask	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 ask	advmod
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 yup	parataxis
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	past · do-support	he					first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stash		his dad						nom stash «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

nah, he got it from the Tsar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Tsar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tsar	det
8	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	it		the Tsar			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from tsar=Source

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