Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

Proper, what's the labourer's pay, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pay, labourer · What happens: be, pay

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1110 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin wins the herd and the Nastasia's riddle, then a labourer's wife turns out to be a serpent» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 labourer	det
6	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 labourer	case
8	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	3 what	case
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the labourer's pay					properly property	tree rules
2	pay		the labourer						nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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

Just the one sheaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 sheaf	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheaf	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sheaf	nummod
4	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Every sheaf he ever grew across the whole season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sheaf	det
2	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 grew	advmod
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 season	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 season	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 season	amod
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	every sheaf				ever; season		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Half the crop only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 crop	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crop	det
3	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 crop	advmod

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

Option 4

A share of the flour once the miller had taken his cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 share	det
2	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flour	det
5	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 share	nmod
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 taken	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cut	nmod:poss
12	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect · passive		a share of the flour					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme cut=Destination
2	share			the flour					nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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