Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

what do they call the thing they wrote to the King, like a formal complaint?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: call, write · To what, where: thing, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 call	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wrote	nsubj
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 complaint	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 complaint	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 complaint	det
15	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 complaint	amod
16	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	they	the thing				like a formal complaint	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme thing=Result
2	write	past	they	the thing not said here	the King				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to king=Recipient

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

a complaint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a petition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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