Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turn…

fam, what does the proverb say about women?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fam · What happens: do, say · To what, where: proverb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 fam	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 proverb	det
6	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 women	case
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	fam	the proverb					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proverb=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	fam					about women	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Women have long hair and short wits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wits	cc
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wits	amod
7	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Women	long hair and short wits					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 2

Men have short hair and long wits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wits	cc
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wits	amod
7	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Men	short hair and long wits					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 3

A woman who speaks loudly has long hair and never listens to her husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 speaks	nsubj
4	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 woman	acl:relcl
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 speaks	advmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 listens	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 listens	advmod
11	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 husband	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	a woman		loudly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	a woman	long hair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	not listen	present	a woman not said here		to woman's husband	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to husband=Theme

Option 4

Women have long hair and short wits, as every village knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wits	cc
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wits	amod
7	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hair	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 knows	mark
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Women	long hair and short wits					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	know	present	every village						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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