Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

Did the prince marry all three princesses in the old story?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: marry · To what, where: three princesses, old story

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	nsubj
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 princesses	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 princesses	nummod
7	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 marry	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 story	amod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 princesses	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 marry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · do-support	the prince	all three princesses		the old story			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the editor reckons so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reckons	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 editor	det
4	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckons	nsubj
5	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 reckons	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the editor						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, the editor reckons he only married the youngest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 editor	det
4	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckons	nsubj
5	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 married	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 married	advmod
8	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckons	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youngest	det
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the editor						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	marry	past	editor	the youngest					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient

Option 3

Yes, the teacher says so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, he married only one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 married	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj
4	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	he	one					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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