Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, part 13: t…

Yo, the eldest uncle wanted the kid to swap in, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest uncle · What happens: want, swap in · To what, where: kid

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	6 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 uncle	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 uncle	amod
5	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swap	mark
10	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kid	acl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 swap	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	6 wanted	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the eldest uncle	the kid					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme
2	swap in	to-infinitive	the eldest uncle not said here	the kid not said here					vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he promised him the whole ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he	the whole ship	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal ship=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he promised him a share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 share	det
7	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he	a share	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal share=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he promised him the whole ship and a share of the silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 share	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 share	det
11	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ship	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 silver	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 silver	det
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 share	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he	the whole ship and a share of the silver	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal ship=Theme
2	share			the silver					nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he wanted the boy to stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 boy	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the boy					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	stay	to-infinitive	he not said here	the boy not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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