Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

Real talk, what did Mark want the king to pay him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mark, Real talk · What happens: want, pay · To what, where: Real talk, king

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pay	mark
11	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pay	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Mark	Real talk					tree rules
2	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Real talk not said here	king					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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

Two years of rent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rent	case
4	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod

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

Option 2

Twenty years of taxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 taxes	case
4	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

All the rent owed to him for the twelve years since his father died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 rent	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rent	det
3	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owed	nsubj
4	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 owed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 years	det
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 owed	obl
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 died	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 owed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	all rent		him = he		year		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal
2	die	past	rent's father						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twelve years of rent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rent	case
4	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod

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

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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