Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

Did Marko's wife help him or nah, bro?

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wife	aux
2	Marko	Marko	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Marko	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 help	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Marko's wife		Marko				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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

Yeah, she cried loudly and pretended he had died so the moujik would believe it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 cried	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pretended	cc
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 died	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 died	aux
10	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 pretended	ccomp
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 believe	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moujik	det
13	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 believe	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 believe	aux
15	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pretended	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pretend	past	she not said here			tree rules
3	die	past · perfect	he			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	believe	would	the moujik	it		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she cried and played dead for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 played	cc
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 played	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	past	she not said here	dead				for him = he	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dead=Theme for he=Eventuality

Option 3

Yeah, she told the moujik he was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moujik	det
6	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		the moujik				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moujik=Recipient
2	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she didn't help, she just told the moujik to go away and leave them alone forever

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 help	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moujik	det
12	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 moujik	acl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 leave	cc
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 leave	obj
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 leave	advmod
20	forever	forever	ADV	_	17 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not help	past · do-support	she			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	she	the moujik		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moujik=Recipient
3	go away	to-infinitive	she not said here	the moujik not said here	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	infinitive	she not said here	them = they	alone, forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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