Test 3 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an ol…

Did the nobleman just give him a fat purse for free?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobleman · What happens: give · To what, where: fat purse, him

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nobleman	det
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 purse	det
8	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 purse	amod
9	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 free	case
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 purse	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the nobleman	a fat purse	him = he			for free	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient purse=Theme for free=Asset

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

Yep, with a secret compartment for notes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 compartment	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 compartment	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 compartment	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 compartment	det
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 compartment	amod
6	compartment	compartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 notes	case
8	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 compartment	nmod

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

Option 2

Nope, it came with a hidden trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 trick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trick	det
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trick	amod
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	it					with a hidden trick	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, with a little pocket for coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 pocket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pocket	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 pocket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pocket	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pocket	amod
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 coins	case
8	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pocket	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, he got a fat purse with a little sack for coins and a letter telling him what to do

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 purse	det
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 purse	amod
7	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 sack	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sack	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sack	amod
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 coins	case
13	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sack	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 letter	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 letter	det
16	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sack	conj
17	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 letter	acl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 telling	iobj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 telling	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	a fat purse		with a little sack for coins and a letter	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer purse=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	a letter not said here		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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