Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

yo, so the fool was actually dumb, or was he just playing everyone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fool, he · What happens: be, play · To what, where: everyone

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 467 «Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's pike-magic pails, sledge and cudgel make the town angry, so they plan a trick» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 dumb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 dumb	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fool	det
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dumb	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dumb	cop
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 dumb	advmod
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 playing	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 playing	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 playing	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 playing	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 playing	advmod
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dumb	parataxis
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 playing	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dumb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fool					actually, dumb property	tree rules
2	play	past · progressive	he	everyone					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=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 · ✓ the right answer

just playing everyone, dude, he's clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 playing	advmod
2	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 clever	advcl
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 playing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dude	punct
5	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 playing	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 clever	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	cop
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	he not said here	everyone					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
2	is	present	he					clever property	tree rules

Option 2

naw, dude, he was seriously dumb, the stove was his whole life and he never learned nothing from anyone, innit

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	naw	naw	INTJ	_	8 dumb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dude	punct
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 naw	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 naw	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dumb	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dumb	cop
7	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	8 dumb	advmod
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 life	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stove	det
11	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 life	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 life	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dumb	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 learned	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 learned	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 learned	advmod
19	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dumb	conj
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 learned	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 anyone	case
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 learned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 innit	punct
24	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 anyone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			dumb, seriously property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the stove	his whole life			tree rules
3	not learn	past	he	nothing	anyone		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic from anyone=Source

Option 3

he was dumb but got lucky at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dumb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dumb	cop
3	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 got	cc
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dumb	conj
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dumb property	tree rules
2	get	past	he not said here	lucky			at the end		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent lucky=Theme at end=Asset

Option 4

he was totally dumb the whole time, lol, the brothers were just way smarter than him, dude, no cap

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dumb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dumb	cop
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 dumb	advmod
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dumb	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lol	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 dumb	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brothers	det
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 way	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 way	advmod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dumb	parataxis
16	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 way	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 smarter	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dude	punct
20	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cap	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 cap	det
23	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				time	dumb, totally property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the brothers	way and dude and no cap					tree rules

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