Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

did the fool's dad buy the flute or steal it?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1117 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fool	det
3	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 fool	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	nsubj
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flute	det
8	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 steal	cc
10	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 buy	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 steal	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · do-support	the fool's dad	the flute					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
2	steal	infinitive	the fool's dad not said here	flute					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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

he stole it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he bought it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	he	it					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he found it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

he traded it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	nsubj
2	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	past	he	it					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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