Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Did the Pope nick the old bloke's loaves while he was kipping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, kip · To what, where: Pope nick

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 486 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part 78: a greedy Pope steals loaves and tries to cure a princess by chopping her up» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nick	det
3	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nick	compound
4	nick	Nick	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loaves	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bloke	case
9	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nick	nmod
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 kipping	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kipping	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kipping	aux
13	kipping	kip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Did	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Pope nick the old bloke's loaves					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality
2	kip	past · progressive	he						tree rules

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

Yeah, he nabbed them quiet like a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nabbed	nsubj
4	nabbed	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nabbed	obj
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nabbed	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 fox	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	past	he	them = they				like a fox; quiet property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he scoffed them dead sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scoffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scoffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scoffed	nsubj
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scoffed	obj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sneaky	amod
7	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scoffed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past	he	them = they				sneaky property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he left the bread right there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	the bread		there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

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