Test 8 · ★ · Russian Tales, Ivan the Fool, part 31: Ivan's millstone sc…

what's a karbovantsya, is it like a dollar or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dollar, karbovantsya · What happens: be · To what, where: karbovantsya

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1125 «Russian Tales, Ivan the Fool, part 31: Ivan's millstone scatters robbers, and his magic fife sets a parson dancing into a hedge» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 karbovantsya	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 karbovantsya	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 karbovantsya	det
4	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dollar	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 karbovantsya	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dollar	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dollar	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 dollar	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dollar	det
10	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 dollar	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 dollar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a dollar	a karbovantsya					tree rules
2	is	present	a karbovantsya					like a dollar	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

It's an old Ukrainian silver coin, worth about four shillings in the old days when people paid their rent in them

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coin	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coin	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coin	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
5	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coin	compound
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worth	punct
9	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coin	amod
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 shillings	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 shillings	nummod
12	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 worth	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 days	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 days	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 days	amod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shillings	nmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 paid	advmod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 paid	nsubj
19	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coin	advcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 rent	nmod:poss
21	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paid	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a old Ukrainian silver coin		tree rules
2	pay	past	people	people's rent	in shillings = shilling	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset
3	rent		people			nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It's a silver tool for weighing grain, not really money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tool	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tool	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tool	det
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tool	compound
5	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 weighing	mark
7	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tool	acl
8	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weighing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 money	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 money	advmod
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 money	advmod
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tool	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a silver tool and money					tree rules
2	weigh	gerund	a silver tool and money not said here	grain					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme grain=Value

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's an old Ukrainian coin, worth about four shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 coin	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coin	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coin	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coin	amod
5	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coin	amod
6	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 worth	punct
8	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coin	amod
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 shillings	case
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 shillings	nummod
11	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 worth	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a old Ukrainian coin					tree rules

Option 4

It's a Ukrainian dessert made from honey, cream and sugar, and people eat it at weddings and funerals

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dessert	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dessert	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dessert	det
4	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dessert	amod
5	dessert	dessert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dessert	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 honey	case
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cream	punct
10	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 honey	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sugar	cc
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 honey	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eat	cc
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dessert	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 weddings	case
19	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 funerals	cc
21	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 weddings	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a Ukrainian dessert		tree rules
2	make	participle		a Ukrainian dessert not said here	honey and cream and sugar	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from honey=Material
3	eat	present	people	sugar	weddings and funerals	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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