Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…
No cap, what did the lady have to pay to get young?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, have, pay, get · To what, where: lady
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cap | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pay | mark |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pay | advcl |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no cap | the lady | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | no cap | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | no cap not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | no cap not said here | young property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
every penny she had in her household chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 penny | det |
| 2 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chest | compound |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | every penny | penny's household chest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a thousand kopecks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thousand | det |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kopecks | nummod |
| 3 | kopecks | kopeck | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
three hundred roubles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 roubles | nummod |
| 3 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
five hundred roubles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 roubles | nummod |
| 3 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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