Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

wait, did the dead man say a glass takes no time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dead man, glass · What happens: wait, say, take · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 477 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a dead man and wakes three hundred years late» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 glass	det
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	nsubj
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the dead man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	present	a glass	time	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, he said one glass is a whole night's worth of drinking, bruv, so pace yourself

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 glass	nummod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worth	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 worth	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worth	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 night	case
12	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 drinking	case
14	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worth	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worth	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pace	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 pace	advmod
19	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 pace	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	pace yourself					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	one glass	a whole night's worth and bruv			night	of drinking	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, "won't take long"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 take	advmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	future							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, takes ages, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 takes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 takes	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ages	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present		ages and bruv					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he said it's gonna take ages and he needed to get comfy first

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 take	cop
7	gonna	gonna	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 needed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 needed	nsubj
12	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 needed	xcomp
15	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	it	take property	tree rules
3	need	past	he		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	comfy, first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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