Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the b…

no cap, what had her hubby told her not to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: have, tell, not do · To what, where: hubby, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1121 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Serpent-Tsarevich, part 27: the bride trades apples for nights with her husband» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hubby	nmod:poss
7	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 do	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	past	no cap	her hubby		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hubby=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	no cap		her = she	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not do not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

talk about the stolen bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 bones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					about the stolen bones	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bone=Topic
2	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

reveal the hidden skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reveal	reveal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skins	det
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skins	amod
4	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 reveal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reveal	imperative	you not said here	the hidden skins					vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic

Option 3

speak of skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 skins	case
3	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here					of skins	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

spill about his lost skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spill	spill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 skins	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skins	nmod:poss
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 skins	amod
5	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 spill	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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