Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

Real talk, what did the seigneur want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seigneur · What happens: want · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 want	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seigneur	det
7	seigneur	seigneur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the seigneur	Real talk					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

to be made well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 made	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive · passive						well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 2

to be made rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 made	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive · passive						rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 3

to have his old age taken away forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 taken	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 age	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 age	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	infinitive · perfect						away, forever property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to be made young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 made	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive · passive						young property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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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