Test 7 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the…

Ha, what was Martin's job before he got rich?

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	7 job	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 job	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 job	cop
5	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 job	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Martin	case
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 job	advcl
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 job	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Martin's job					tree rules
2	get	past	Martin					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 a shepherd in the hills

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 shepherd	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shepherd	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shepherd	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a shepherd		the hills			tree rules

Option 2

A poor boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

He was the poor widow's son

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	7 son	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 widow	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 widow	amod
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 widow	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the poor widow's son					tree rules

Option 4

He was a royal builder

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	5 builder	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 builder	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 builder	det
4	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 builder	amod
5	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a royal builder					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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