Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy
Bro, did the hunter get paid for bringing her home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, pay, bring · To what, where: hunter, home
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 455 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunter | det |
| 5 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 bringing | mark |
| 9 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 paid | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bringing | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bro | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | present · passive | the hunter | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | Bro's home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=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
Nah, they just said thanks, bro, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bro | punct |
| 8 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thanks | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | they | thanks and bro | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
Option 2
Yeah, they gave him a horse and a cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cow | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cow | det |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | they | a horse and a cow | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they gave him all kinds of good stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 kinds | det |
| 7 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stuff | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stuff | amod |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kinds | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | they | all kinds of good stuff | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kind=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, he got nothing but a lecture, but he did eat a huge dinner, dude
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 lecture | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lecture | det |
| 8 | lecture | lecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | aux |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dinner | det |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dinner | amod |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dude | punct |
| 18 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | eat | past · do-support | he | a huge dinner | dude obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
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