Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

Ok so what did Mark's second letter say to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second letter, Mark · What happens: do, say, letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 letter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mark	case
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 letter	amod
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Mark's second letter	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	letter		Mark	nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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

Send the bearer to war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bearer	det
3	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 war	case
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	the bearer		war			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bearer=Theme to war=Destination

Option 2

Give the bearer his daughter's hand and a large dowry of gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bearer	det
3	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 daughter	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dowry	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dowry	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dowry	amod
11	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 coins	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coins	compound
14	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dowry	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the bearer					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bearer=Recipient hand=Theme

Option 3

Hire the bearer as a clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hire	hire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bearer	det
3	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hire	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 clerk	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clerk	det
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hire	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	imperative	you not said here	the bearer				as a clerk	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bearer=Theme as clerk=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Marry the bearer to his daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bearer	det
3	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marry	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 daughter	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the bearer				to his daughter	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bearer=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient

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