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Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

Did the brothers say he was alive? Nah, what did they say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers, he · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» 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

Sentence 1: Did the brothers say he was alive?

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	3 brothers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 alive	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alive	cop
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the brothers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					alive property	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.

Sentence 2: Nah, what did they say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	brothers = brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

They said he was dead and buried, trust, honest to god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 buried	cc
7	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dead	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trust	punct
9	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honest	punct
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dead	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 god	mark
13	god	god	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 honest	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	They						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules
3	bury	participle	he not said here						vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	be		he not said here						tree rules
5	god	to-infinitive	he not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They said he was dead, trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trust	punct
7	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	They						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

They said he was lost, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	They						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	past · passive		he					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

They reckoned he'd drowned, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drowned	nsubj:pass
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drowned	aux
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reckoned	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 reckoned	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	They						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	drown	past · perfect · passive		he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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