Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

so the Devil thanks him and invites him over, what's the deal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Devil · What happens: thank, invite over, be · To what, where: him, Devil, deal

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	4 thanks	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Devil	det
3	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thanks	nsubj
4	thanks	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanks	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 invites	cc
7	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thanks	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 invites	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	7 invites	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 deal	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 deal	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 deal	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deal	det
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invites	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thanks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	the Devil		him = he	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	invite over	present	the Devil not said here		Devil	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	present		the deal		tree rules

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 gave him a horse and bread, fr

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bread	cc
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	a horse and bread and fr	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he promised silver and gold, no cap

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 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gold	cc
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silver	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silver	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he	silver and gold and no cap					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent silver=Theme

Option 3

he offered him a horse, no cap

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 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	he	a horse	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal horse=Theme

Option 4

he promised silver and gold and a horse too, no cap, so he went

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 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gold	cc
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silver	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horse	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silver	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	2 promised	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he	silver and gold and a horse					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent silver=Theme
2	go	past	horse						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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