Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

so what did she tell him to ask for instead of gold?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: tell, ask · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 416 «Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha visits the Devil's palace and finds his drowned father there as a horse» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 gold	case
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 gold	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	she		him = he				tree rules
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here					for gold	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 sad horse that pulls the cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pulls	nsubj
5	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 horse	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cart	det
7	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	the sad horse	the cart					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 2

the wretched horse that hauls wood, the one who's been stuck there forever, bro

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wood	nmod:poss
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hauls	nsubj
5	hauls	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 horse	acl:relcl
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wood	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stuck	nsubj:pass
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stuck	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 stuck	aux:pass
13	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 one	acl:relcl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stuck	advmod
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 stuck	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bro	punct
17	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	present	the wretched horse						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stick	present · passive		the one		there		forever property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3

the wretched horse that hauls wood all day in the forest, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hauls	nsubj
5	hauls	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 horse	acl:relcl
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hauls	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hauls	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hauls	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	present	the wretched horse	wood		the forest and bro	day		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the wretched horse that hauls wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hauls	nsubj
5	hauls	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 horse	acl:relcl
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hauls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	present	the wretched horse	wood					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

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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