Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Went to School: an ol…

Why didn't the old man just let the casket go?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man, casket · What happens: not let, go · To what, where: casket

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 casket	det
10	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	the old man	the casket					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the casket not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 was too weak

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	4 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 weak	advmod
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He was too kind

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	4 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 kind	advmod
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He knew his sons were greedy

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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sons	nmod:poss
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 greedy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 greedy	cop
6	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	his sons					greedy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted them to suffer

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 suffer	mark
5	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	them = they					tree rules
2	suffer not said to happen	to-infinitive	them = they not said here						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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