Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler in Hell, part 1: a fiddler…

Ngl, the fiddler's advice was to sit behind the pipe for three years, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: advice · What happens: be · To what, where: pipe

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 475 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler in Hell, part 1: a fiddler sinks into hell and finds a tormented rich moujik» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sit	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fiddler	det
4	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 advice	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fiddler	case
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 pipe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pipe	det
12	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sit	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	9 sit	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fiddler's advice			the pipe	year	Ngl vocative; sit property	tree rules

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

Nah, just wait it out, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wait	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 wait	advmod
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wait	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 wait	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait out	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, and don't eat a thing, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Yup	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	infinitive · do-support		a thing					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 3

Yup, and don't eat a thing for three years, bro, it's the only way

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Yup	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 years	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 way	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 way	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	infinitive · do-support		a thing			year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	is a	present	thing	the only way					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, sit still and pray, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 sit	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pray	cc
6	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	present	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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