Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…
Okay, real talk, is Marko the Rich a total skinflint?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: talk Marko
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 4 talk | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 talk | amod |
| 4 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Marko | compound |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Marko | cop |
| 7 | Marko | Marko | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rich | det |
| 9 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Marko | appos |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 skinflint | det |
| 11 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skinflint | amod |
| 12 | skinflint | skinflint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Marko | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Marko | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | talk Marko | 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
No, not at all, he was super generous to the poor folks around him all the time
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 generous | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 generous | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 generous | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 generous | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 generous | cop |
| 9 | super | super | ADV | _ | 10 generous | advmod |
| 10 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 folks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 folks | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 folks | amod |
| 14 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 generous | obl |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 folks | nmod |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 time | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 generous | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | time | to the poor folks around him; generous, super property | tree rules |
Option 2
No, he's actually pretty generous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 generous | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 generous | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 generous | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 generous | advmod |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 7 generous | advmod |
| 7 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | actually, generous, pretty property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, he's the stingiest dude ever, he wouldn't even pay back a single copeck
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 dude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dude | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dude | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dude | det |
| 6 | stingiest | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 dude | amod |
| 7 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 dude | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dude | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pay | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 pay | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 pay | advmod |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 pay | advmod |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 pay | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 copeck | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 copeck | amod |
| 18 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | the stingiest dude | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not pay back | would | the stingiest dude | a single copeck | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copeck=Asset |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, he's the stingiest dude ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 dude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dude | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dude | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dude | det |
| 6 | stingiest | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 dude | amod |
| 7 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 dude | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | the stingiest dude | ever | 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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