Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

Did the moujik just read psalms and bounce, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: moujik · What happens: read · To what, where: psalms

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moujik	det
3	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 read	advmod
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bounce	cc
8	bounce	bounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 psalms	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 read	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past · do-support	the moujik	psalms and bounce					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic

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

He hid in the church all night

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He			the church	night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location

Option 2

He sang them and then ran off

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 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ran	advmod
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	He	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	run off	past	He not said here				then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He read them, then hid behind the altar

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 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hid	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 hid	advmod
6	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 read	conj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 altar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 altar	det
9	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	He	them = they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	hide	past	He not said here			the altar	then		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind altar=Location

Option 4

He read them then went home for dinner

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 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 read	ccomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	He						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	them = they				then	for dinner; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dinner=Beneficiary

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