Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Princess Helena the Fair: Vanya wins t…

bro, what does a skazka even mean, is it like a meme?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do, mean, be · To what, where: skazka

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 466 «Russian Folk-Tales, Princess Helena the Fair: Vanya wins the princess on his dead father's magic horse» 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	14 meme	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skazka	det
6	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	4 does	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 skazka	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 meme	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 meme	nsubj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 meme	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 meme	det
14	meme	meme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 meme	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	bro	a skazka		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skazka=Eventuality
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	bro		like a meme; bro vocative	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

yeah, it's like a funny meme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 meme	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meme	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meme	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 meme	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meme	det
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meme	amod
8	meme	meme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					like a funny meme	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, it's an old folk tale story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 story	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 story	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 story	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 story	amod
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	compound
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	compound
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old tale story					tree rules

Option 3

nah, it's an old Russian word for a prayer that people sang at the graves of their dead ancestors

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 prayer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 prayer	det
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sang	nsubj
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sang	nsubj
14	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 prayer	acl:relcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 graves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 graves	det
17	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sang	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 ancestors	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ancestors	nmod:poss
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ancestors	amod
21	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 graves	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old Russian word				for a prayer	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	a prayer			the graves of people's dead ancestors			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at grave=Location

Option 4

yeah, it means a kind of meme that people shared on the internet back in the old days

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 meme	case
8	meme	meme	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 shared	obj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shared	nsubj
11	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 internet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 internet	det
14	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shared	obl
15	back	back	ADV	_	11 shared	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 days	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 days	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	a kind of meme					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic
2	share	past	people	a kind of meme		the internet	day		tree rules

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