Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

So the rich brother reckoned he'd be proper rich, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich brother, brother · What happens: reckon, be, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 452 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brother drowns Woe, then Need, Kruchina and the Zluidni turn up in other tales» 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	_	5 reckoned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rich	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rich	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 rich	cop
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rich	amod
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckoned	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 rich	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the rich brother		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	brother	rich property	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive			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.

The options

Option 1

Yeah, he wanted to nick his bro's luck so he could be the richest in the village

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 richest	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 nick	mark
6	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bro	nmod:poss
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 luck	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bro	case
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nick	obj
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 richest	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 richest	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 richest	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 richest	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 richest	det
16	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 village	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 village	det
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 richest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	nick not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	his bro's luck			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
3	is	could	he		the village	rich property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he wanted to nick his bro's luck and his whole farm too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 nick	mark
6	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bro	nmod:poss
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 luck	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bro	case
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nick	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 farm	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 farm	nmod:poss
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 farm	amod
14	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 luck	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	6 nick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	nick not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	his bro's luck and his whole farm					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he wanted to nick his bro's luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 nick	mark
6	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bro	nmod:poss
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 luck	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bro	case
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	nick not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	his bro's luck					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he wanted his bro's money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bro	nmod:poss
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 money	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bro	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	his bro's money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme

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