Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

Ngl, did Kruchina give owt back for the crust?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: give back · To what, where: owt

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Kruchina	Kruchina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	owt	owt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 crust	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crust	det
10	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	past · do-support	Ngl	owt				for the crust	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owt=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

Yeah, a duck that lays golden eggs every single day of the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 duck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 duck	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lays	nsubj
6	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 duck	acl:relcl
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eggs	amod
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lays	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	obl:unmarked
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 year	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a duck	golden eggs			day		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 2

Yeah, a magic duck that lays golden eggs and never stops laying them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 duck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 duck	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 duck	det
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duck	compound
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lays	nsubj
7	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 duck	acl:relcl
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eggs	amod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lays	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stops	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 stops	advmod
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lays	conj
13	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stops	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lay	present	a magic duck	golden eggs	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	not stop	present	a magic duck not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	lay	gerund	a magic duck not said here	eggs = egg	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a duck that lays golden eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 duck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 duck	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lays	nsubj
6	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 duck	acl:relcl
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eggs	amod
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a duck	golden eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 4

Yeah, a goose that lays silver eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 goose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goose	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goose	det
4	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lays	nsubj
6	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goose	acl:relcl
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eggs	compound
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a goose	silver eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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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