Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

Yo, so the rich brother kicked the poor one out for sitting down?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich brother · What happens: kick, sit down · To what, where: poor one

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1129 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal saves the brothers from Wednesday and the youngest wins the Tsar's favour» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 kicked	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kicked	nsubj
7	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kicked	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	7 kicked	advmod
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 sitting	mark
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kicked	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 sitting	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	the rich brother	the poor one				out property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	sit down	gerund	the rich brother not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, at his table, the cheek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 table	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 table	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 table	nmod:poss
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheek	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cheek	det
8	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 table	conj

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

Option 2

Yeah, he sat on a stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stool	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stool	det
7	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he			a stool			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, he just asked to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, at his table, for sitting down, which was the cheek of him

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 table	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 table	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 table	nmod:poss
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 table	acl
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cheek	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cheek	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cheek	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cheek	det
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 table	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cheek	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	gerund	his table and the cheek not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	his table and the cheek	the cheek				of him = he	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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