Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

lowkey who gave ivan the best advice, the big bro or the little one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: give · To what, where: best advice, ivan

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1119 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun, part 1: Ivan buys incense, chooses a wife, and builds a hut» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 advice	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 advice	amod
7	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bro	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bro	amod
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advice	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 one	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bro	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	lowkey	the best advice	ivan				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient advice=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 youngest brother, the one who had lived by the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brother	appos
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	aux
9	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 one	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	the one					by the lake	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lake=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The big brother, who spoke first and gave the longest advice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoke	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 spoke	nsubj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 spoke	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoke	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 advice	det
11	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 advice	amod
12	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the big brother					first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the big brother not said here	the longest advice					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme

Option 3

The middle brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The youngest brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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