Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

bruh, what did the pike want for letting itself go?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pike · What happens: do, want, let, go · To what, where: pike

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pike	det
6	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 letting	mark
9	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 want	advcl
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 letting	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 letting	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the pike		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	let	gerund	the pike not said here	pike	tree rules
4	go	infinitive	pike not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

it wanted him to be lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 lucky	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lucky	cop
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					lucky property	tree rules

Option 2

it wanted gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it	gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 3

to be free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 free	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 free	cop
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						free property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it wanted the fool to get good luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 luck	amod
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it	the fool					tree rules
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fool not said here	good luck					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer luck=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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