Test 13 · ★ · Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled…

Did the wolf ever pay Ferko back, do you reckon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf, you · What happens: pay back, reckon · To what, where: Ferko

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1693 «Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled Ferko heals himself and wins the King's test» 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 pay	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 pay	advmod
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 pay	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reckon	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reckon	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 reckon	nsubj
11	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pay	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	past · do-support	the wolf	Ferko			ever		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ferko=Asset
2	reckon	present · do-support	you						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he gave Ferko a gold coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coin	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coin	compound
8	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a gold coin	Ferko				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ferko=Recipient coin=Theme

Option 2

yeah, the wolf gave Ferko a big reward of gold and a horse the next day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 reward	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reward	amod
9	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reward	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 horse	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reward	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the wolf	a big reward of gold and a horse	Ferko		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ferko=Recipient reward=Theme
2	reward			gold					nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the text doesn't say, it's only promised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 promised	nsubj:pass
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 promised	aux
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 promised	advmod
10	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	promise speech: promise	present · passive		text					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

Option 4

nah, he ran off into the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he					into the wood result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

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