Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

Bruv, what did the old man in that Little-Russian tale want to buy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, want, buy · To what, where: old man, Russian tale

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	13 tale	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 tale	det
10	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Russian	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Little	punct
12	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tale	amod
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 want	obl
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 buy	mark
16	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 want	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the old man		Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	want	present		that Russian tale		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

The spasibo, the thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spasibo	det
2	spasibo	spasibo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thank	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spasibo	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thank	det
5	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	the spasibo		you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

The thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thank	det
2	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 thank	obj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The gold, the purse of coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 purse	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 purse	det
5	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gold	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 coins	case
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 purse	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The fish, the river's bounty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bounty	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bounty	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 river	case
7	bounty	bounty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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