Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1:…

bro the girl said "God knows who breaks in whom", what did she even mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, God, girl · What happens: say, know, break, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 knows	punct
6	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 knows	nsubj
7	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 breaks	nsubj
9	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 knows	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 breaks	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 whom	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 mean	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mean	aux
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mean	nsubj
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 mean	advmod
18	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knows	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bro	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	God	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	break in a quote	present		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in whom=Location
4	mean	past · do-support	girl	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

idk, she was mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idk	idk	INTJ	_	5 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 idk	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					mad property	tree rules

Option 2

she meant who gets the upper hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 meant	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
6	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	she						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	present		the upper hand					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was like, we'll see who tames who

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	cop
3	like	like	INTJ	_	7 see	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tames	nsubj
9	tames	tame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 see	ccomp
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tames	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					see property	tree rules
2	tame	present							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent who=Patient

Option 4

she said it was a threat, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 threat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 threat	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 threat	det
6	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a threat and fr					tree rules

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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