Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…

fam, why did the King give the boy money and land?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: give · To what, where: boy money

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 469 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1: a priest's son outwits a witch princess, then a soldier is warned about a merchant's daughter» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 give	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 fam	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 money	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 money	compound
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 land	cc
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 money	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the King	the boy money and land					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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

cause he did the job and got the witch sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 job	det
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorted	nsubj
10	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	do	past	he	the job	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	get	past	he not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	sort	past	the witch		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

cause he asked nicely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	cause					nicely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cause he read all night and sorted the witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sorted	cc
7	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	cause				night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sort	past	cause not said here	the witch					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme

Option 4

cause the girl was his daughter, so yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughter	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 so	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	1 cause	advmod
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 cause	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	the girl	his daughter					tree rules

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