Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe and the Peasant, part 43: the peas…

no cap, why'd the peasant keep singing with that weird voice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: peasant keep · What happens: sing

This is test 2 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 why	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
5	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keep	det
7	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	amod
8	keep	keep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 why	appos
9	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 voice	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 voice	det
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	the peasant keep not said here					with that weird voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

he thought it was Woe helping him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 helping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 helping	aux
5	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 helping	nsubj
6	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 helping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	help	past · progressive	it		Woe				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2

he hoped the voice was a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 voice	det
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friend	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 friend	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hoped	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	he						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	past	the voice	a friend					tree rules

Option 3

he liked singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 liked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sing speech: express not said to happen	gerund	he not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he wanted the neighbours to hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbours	det
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the neighbours					tree rules
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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