Test 14 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peas…

fr, the peasant had no money for the pot-house, so what did Woe say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, Woe · What happens: have, say · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 451 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peasant buries Woe under a stone» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pot	punct
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 say	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	fr	no money				for the pot house	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Woe						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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

drink is free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 free	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 free	cop
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	drink					free property	tree rules

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

what do we want money for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	4 want	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	we	money					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme money=Attribute

Option 3

take the oxen to the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oxen	det
3	oxen	oxen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fair	det
6	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the oxen		the fair			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oxen=Theme to fair=Destination

Option 4

let's sell the cart for drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 let	obj
3	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 let	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cart	det
5	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sell	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 drink	case
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	's					tree rules
2	sell	infinitive	's not said here	the cart				for drink	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cart=Theme for drink=Asset

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