Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

what did the church-books say, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: church books · What happens: do, say · To what, where: bro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 books	det
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 books	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 church	punct
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the church books	bro					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bro=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

they showed he'd been buried and forgotten, and nobody had bothered to check the dates for ages

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buried	nsubj:pass
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 buried	aux:pass
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 showed	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forgotten	cc
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 buried	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bothered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bothered	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 bothered	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bothered	aux
13	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 showed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 check	mark
15	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bothered	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dates	det
17	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 check	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ages	case
19	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	show	past	they			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bury	past · perfect · passive		he		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	forget	participle				tree rules
4	bother	past · perfect	nobody			tree rules
5	check	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	the dates	for ages	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent date=Theme for age=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he'd vanished three hundred years back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vanished	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vanished	aux
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 vanished	obl:unmarked
7	back	back	ADV	_	3 vanished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	he				year		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he'd gone three hundred years back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 'd	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 years	amod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 'd	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	2 'd	advmod

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

Option 4

it said he left a century back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 century	det
6	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave back	past	he				century		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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