Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

why couldn't the poor guy borrow stuff, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor guy · What happens: borrow · To what, where: stuff

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 483 «Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews the feast's beer» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 guy	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 guy	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 guy	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guy	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guy	amod
6	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 borrow	nsubj
7	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 borrow	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuff	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 borrow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	present	the poor guy	stuff and fr					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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

he had no cash saved

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cash	det
4	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cash	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no cash					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=Patient
2	save	participle		no cash not said here					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he had no collateral to give

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 collateral	det
4	collateral	collateral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 collateral	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no collateral					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collateral=Patient
2	give	to-infinitive	he not said here	no collateral not said here					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

cause the rich guy already hated him and wouldn't lend to anybody who had ever complained about prices

The tree, 19 words

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	4 guy	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guy	amod
4	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obj
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 hated	advmod
6	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guy	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hated	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lend	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lend	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lend	advmod
11	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 anybody	case
13	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 lend	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 complained	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 complained	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 complained	advmod
17	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 anybody	acl:relcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 prices	case
19	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 complained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	the rich guy				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition guy=Patient
2	hate	past	the rich guy not said here	him = he				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	not lend	would	you not said here		anybody			vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to anybody=Recipient
4	complain speech: other	past · perfect				ever	about prices	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about price=Topic

Option 4

he had nothing to pawn

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pawn	mark
5	pawn	pawn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	pawn	to-infinitive	he not said here	nothing not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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