Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

where'd the old man tell him to dump the malt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man · What happens: tell, dump · To what, where: him, malt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 tell	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
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 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dump	mark
9	dump	dump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 malt	det
11	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dump	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the old man		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dump not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the malt					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent malt=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 · ✓ the right answer

in the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	outside	outside	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

in the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 yard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yard	det
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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