Test 4 · ★ · Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field,…

did the Moujik get tricked again with those sheaves, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: trick · To what, where: Moujik

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 484 «Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field, a sale, and two candles» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moujik	det
3	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux:pass
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 tricked	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sheaves	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 sheaves	det
9	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tricked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tricked	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tricked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive · do-support		the Moujik			again	with that sheaves	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Nah, Nicholas warned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 warned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warned	nsubj
4	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	Nicholas		him = he				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

Yeah he got tricked, because Nicholas was too busy with the candles to warn him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricked	aux:pass
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 busy	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 busy	mark
7	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 busy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 busy	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 busy	advmod
10	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tricked	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 candles	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 candles	det
13	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 busy	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 warn	mark
15	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tricked	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive		he			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	Nicholas			with the candles; busy property	tree rules
3	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive			Nicholas		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

Yes, Elijah warned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 warned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warned	nsubj
4	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	Elijah		him = he				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, the sheaves tricked him again, since Nicholas never warned him at all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tricked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheaves	det
4	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tricked	nsubj
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 tricked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 warned	punct
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 warned	mark
10	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 warned	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 warned	advmod
12	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 warned	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 warned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the sheaves	him = he			again		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	not warn speech: warn	past	Nicholas		him = he	all			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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