Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

Why'd Marko hide under the holy pictures, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marko · What happens: hide · To what, where: holy pictures

This is test 3 · ★ 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=Int	4 hide	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 Marko	aux
3	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nsubj
4	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 pictures	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pictures	det
7	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pictures	amod
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hide	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lowkey	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pictures	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Marko			the holy pictures and lowkey			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under picture=Location

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

To dodge the moujik for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dodge	mark
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moujik	det
4	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dodge	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dodge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	to-infinitive		the moujik				for good	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent moujik=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To fake being dead so he wouldn't pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fake	mark
2	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fake	xcomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 pay	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pay	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 pay	advmod
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fake	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fake	to-infinitive			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund		dead property	tree rules
3	not pay	would	he		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cause he was scared of the moujik

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 moujik	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moujik	det
7	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the moujik; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

To fake being dead so the moujik would give up and leave him alone forever

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fake	mark
2	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fake	xcomp
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 give	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moujik	det
7	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fake	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 give	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leave	cc
12	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fake	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leave	obj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 leave	advmod
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	12 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fake	to-infinitive				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund			dead property	tree rules
3	give up	would	the moujik			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	leave	infinitive		moujik	alone, forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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