Test 8 · ★ · Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field,…

yo, what did Nicholas say about the Moujik's field at first?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moujik	det
9	Moujik	Moujik	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 field	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Moujik	case
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 first	case
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Nicholas					about the Moujik's field	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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

It will burn

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	3 burn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	aux
3	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	future	It						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It will fall into good hands

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	3 fall	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hands	amod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	future	It					into good hands result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result

Option 3

It will be sold to traders

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	4 sold	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sold	aux:pass
4	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 traders	case
6	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	future · passive	traders	It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

It will fall to the Priest

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	3 fall	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Priest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Priest	det
6	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	future	It					to the Priest	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to priest=Pivot

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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