Test 2 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

wait, why was the grandma so broke?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: grandma

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1113 «Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a hungry bear with a tar-smeared straw ox» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grandma	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grandma	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grandma	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandma	det
6	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 broke	advmod
8	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the grandma					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 · ✓ the right answer

cause every single kopek went on bread, like, zero savings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kopek	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kopek	amod
4	kopek	kopek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cause	punct
11	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 savings	nummod
12	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present		zero savings					tree rules
2	go	past	every single kopek			bread			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bread=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cause every single kopek went on bread and soup, and the old man gave the rest to the church, like, zero savings

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kopek	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kopek	amod
4	kopek	kopek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 soup	cc
9	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bread	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 church	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 church	det
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
22	like	like	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cause	punct
24	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 savings	nummod
25	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	cause	present		zero savings			tree rules
2	go	past	every single kopek			bread and soup	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bread=Location
3	give	past	the old man	the rest	the church		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to church=Recipient

Option 3

cause they spent it all on fancy hats, like, duh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 it	det
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hats	case
7	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hats	amod
8	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	3 spent	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	duh	duh	INTJ	_	3 spent	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	cause	it				on fancy hats goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on hat=Goal

Option 4

cause every single kopek went on bread and the rent for the hut, so they had nothing left, like, zero savings at all

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kopek	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kopek	amod
4	kopek	kopek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rent	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rent	det
10	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bread	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 hut	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hut	det
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rent	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 had	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 had	obj
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 nothing	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 savings	punct
21	like	like	INTJ	_	24 savings	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
23	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 savings	nummod
24	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 cause	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 savings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cause	present		zero savings at all		tree rules
2	go	past	every single kopek		bread and the rent for the hut	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bread=Location
3	have	past	bread	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	leave	participle				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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