Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith bur…

so did the smith ever pick up his hammer again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smith · What happens: do, pick up · To what, where: smith, hammer

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 422 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon: the Smith burns the seigneur, then the Demon saves him» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smith	det
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 pick	advmod
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smith	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hammer	nmod:poss
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 pick	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the smith					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Eventuality
2	pick up	infinitive	the smith not said here	his hammer			ever; again		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, he sold it to a monk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 monk	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 monk	det
8	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	it	a monk				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to monk=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah, he used it every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	it			day		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yes, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he gave it up for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he	it				for good	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source

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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