Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

Lol, what did the rich bloke say when he got the fish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, say, get · To what, where: rich bloke, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the rich bloke	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past	he	the fish	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus

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

"Thank you, brother, thank you!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

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

Option 2

"Spasibo!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Spasibo	punct
2	Spasibo	Spasibo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Spasibo	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Spasibo	punct

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

Option 3

"Thank you!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

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

Option 4

"Well done, brother, well done!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
2	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 done	advmod
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 done	advmod
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 done	parataxis
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	participle						brother vocative; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do in a quote	participle						well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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