Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins t…

legit, what did the mare say when Ivan whaled on her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mare, Ivan · What happens: say, whale · To what, where: legit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1132 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins the serpent's daughter with Golik's help, then plans to go home» 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	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mare	det
6	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 legit	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 whaled	advmod
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 whaled	nsubj
10	whaled	whale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whaled	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 legit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the mare	legit					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	whale	past	Ivan					on mare	vn berry-13.7 «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

"beat me not, I'll obey"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 beat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 obey	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 obey	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 obey	aux
8	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beat	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not beat in a quote	imperative	you not said here	me					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
2	obey in a quote	future	I						vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

"spare me, I will go"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 spare	punct
2	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	advcl
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 spare	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spare	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	me					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset
2	go in a quote	future	I						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

"beat me not, I'll obey you forever and go wherever you say"

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct
2	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 obey	advcl
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 beat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 obey	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 obey	aux
8	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 obey	obj
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 obey	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 obey	conj
13	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	15 say	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	advcl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not beat in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	me		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
2	obey in a quote	future	I	you	forever property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	go in a quote	infinitive	I not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you		wherever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

"I will do as you say"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	future	I						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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