Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

what did the old man want him to grab from the rich dude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man, him · What happens: want, grab · To what, where: him, rich dude

This is test 4 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grab	mark
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 dude	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dude	det
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dude	amod
13	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grab	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the old man	him = he					tree rules
2	grab not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here			the rich dude			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from dude=Source

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

some dried hops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 hops	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hops	amod
3	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a bag of barley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 barley	case
4	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 3

some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a quarter of malt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quarter	det
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 malt	case
4	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quarter	nmod

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

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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