Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

Why's the moujik so chill about the copeck?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: moujik · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moujik	det
4	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 chill	advmod
6	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moujik	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 copeck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 copeck	det
9	copeck	copeck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chill	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the moujik					why property	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 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted to get Marko back

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get back not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	Marko					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marko=Stimulus

Option 2

He trusted Marko to repay him

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 trusted	nsubj
2	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trusted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 repay	mark
5	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trusted	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 repay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past	He	Marko					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marko=Theme
2	repay	to-infinitive	He not said here		Marko				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

He's rich

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	3 rich	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	cop
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					rich property	tree rules

Option 4

He was patient

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	3 patient	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 patient	cop
3	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					patient property	tree rules

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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