Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

Bruh, did Marko even pay the copeck back or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marko · What happens: pay back · To what, where: copeck

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 419 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant tries to dodge paying one copeck and gets tricked» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 pay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pay	aux
4	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pay	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 pay	advmod
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 copeck	det
8	copeck	copeck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 pay	advmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 pay	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	past · do-support	Marko	the copeck					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copeck=Asset

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

Nah, he kinda dodged the whole thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dodged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dodged	nsubj
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 dodged	advmod
5	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dodged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	past	he	the whole thing				kinda property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he paid it back eventually once the whole funeral thing was over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod
7	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	14 over	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 over	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 over	cop
14	over	over	ADV	_	4 paid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	past	he	it				eventually property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	is	past	the whole funeral thing					over property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, never, he faked being dead to dodge the dude totally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 faked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 faked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 faked	nsubj
6	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	advcl
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dodge	mark
10	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dead	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dude	det
12	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dodge	obj
13	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 dodge	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fake	past	he			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund			dead property	tree rules
3	dodge	to-infinitive		the dude	totally property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent dude=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, never, he totally ghosted the dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 ghosted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 ghosted	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ghosted	nsubj
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 ghosted	advmod
7	ghosted	ghost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ghosted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ghost	past	he	the dude				totally property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dude=Theme

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