Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

Bro, why's the moujik talking about the devil's grandpa?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moujik · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: moujik

This is test 2 · ★ 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moujik	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 moujik	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 moujik	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moujik	det
6	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
7	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 moujik	acl
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 grandpa	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 devil	det
10	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grandpa	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 devil	case
12	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the moujik					tree rules
2	talk	gerund	the moujik not said here					about the devil's grandpa	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about grandpa=Topic

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

Cuz he's some kinda priest, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 priest	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 priest	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	cop
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 priest	det
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 priest	advmod
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 priest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cuz	some priest and fam				kinda property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cuz he's the devil's granddad, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 granddad	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 granddad	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 granddad	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 devil	det
5	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 granddad	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 devil	case
7	granddad	granddad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 granddad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cuz	the devil's granddad and fam					tree rules

Option 3

Cuz the Leshy said he's the devil's granddad, so yeah, fam

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Leshy	det
3	Leshy	Leshy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 granddad	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 granddad	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 devil	det
8	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 granddad	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 devil	case
10	granddad	granddad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fam	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 fam	advmod
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	15 fam	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fam	punct
15	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cuz						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Cuz	the devil's granddad					tree rules

Option 4

Cuz the devil's his son, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 devil	det
3	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	conj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 devil	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos

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

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