Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Katoma, Prince Ivan and the cows: Kat…

what's the deal with dyadka, is that like a name or a thing

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name, that · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 465 «Russian Fairy Tales, Katoma, Prince Ivan and the cows: Katoma swaps clothes with Prince Ivan and tears off a cow's hide» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 name	parataxis
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 dyadka	case
6	dyadka	dyadka	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 name	cop
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 name	nsubj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 thing	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 name	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a name or a thing	the deal				with dyadka	tree rules
2	is	present	that					like a name or a thing	tree rules

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

an old guardian or tutor, now it just means uncle in everyday speech

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guardian	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guardian	amod
3	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 tutor	cc
5	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guardian	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 guardian	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 means	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 means	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 means	advmod
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 speech	case
13	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speech	amod
14	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uncle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a old guardian or tutor	uncle			now	in everyday speech	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot uncle=Theme in speech=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

an old guardian, now it means uncle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guardian	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guardian	amod
3	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 guardian	punct
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 means	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a old guardian	uncle			now		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a kind of hat, now it means uncle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hat	case
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 means	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a kind of hat	uncle			now		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Topic

Option 4

a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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