Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turn…

ngl, what was the wife's whole problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: whole problem

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 417 «Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turns out to be his father» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 problem	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 problem	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 problem	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 problem	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 problem	amod
9	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wife's whole problem					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 · ← Mova's choice

she was always cooking food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cooking	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 cooking	advmod
4	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past · progressive	she	food				always property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she never listened to what he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 listened	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 listened	advmod
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 listened	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	past	she						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she spent all his money on silk and wine at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 money	nmod:poss
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 silk	case
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wine	cc
9	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silk	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 market	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 market	det
12	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	she	his money				on silk and wine goal; at the market	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on silk=Goal

Option 4

she spent all his money on silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 money	nmod:poss
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 silk	case
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	she	his money				on silk goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on silk=Goal

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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