Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an ol…

So, the nobleman really was cool, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobleman · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1124 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an old man is sent to school, a nobleman gives him a purse, and his sons are tricked» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 cool	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nobleman	det
4	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cool	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 cool	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	cop
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 cool	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the nobleman					cool property	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

Nah, he was mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mean property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave the old man a plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a plan	the old man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient plan=Theme

Option 3

Yes, he helped the poor man out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	4 helped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	he		the poor man			out property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary

Option 4

Nope, he was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 rude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

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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