Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

and what did Petrusha say to her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Petrusha · What happens: say · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	Petrusha	Petrusha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Petrusha		her = she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to she=Recipient

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

he said the Devil ain't to blame, bruh

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Devil	det
4	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 blame	nsubj
5	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blame	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 blame	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 blame	mark
8	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruh	punct
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 blame	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not blame	present	the Devil						vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he said cursing the Devil is sinful, bruh

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Devil	det
5	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sinful	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sinful	cop
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cursing	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
9	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	2 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	curse	gerund	he not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the Devil	sinful property	tree rules

Option 3

he said cursing the Devil is sinful and God will punish you, bruh

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Devil	det
5	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sinful	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sinful	cop
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cursing	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 punish	cc
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 punish	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 punish	aux
11	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sinful	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 punish	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
14	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	2 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	curse	gerund	he not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the Devil		sinful property	tree rules
4	punish	future	God	you		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 4

he said cursing the Devil is sinful, so chill out and pray instead, bruh

The tree, 14 words

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Devil	det
5	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sinful	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sinful	cop
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cursing	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chill	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 chill	advmod
10	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 chill	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pray	cc
13	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chill	conj
14	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 pray	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruh	punct
16	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	10 chill	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	curse	gerund	he not said here		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the Devil	sinful property	tree rules
4	chill out	infinitive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	pray	present		instead property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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