Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Was the Pope honest about the loaves at the start?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 honest	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 honest	det
3	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 honest	compound
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 loaves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loaves	det
7	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 honest	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 start	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 start	det
10	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loaves	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						about the loaves at the start; honest property	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

Nah, he told the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he said "not I" and lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 I	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 I	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 said	ccomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 I	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lied	cc
10	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	he not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he said "it was not me"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 me	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 me	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 me	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 me	advmod
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 said	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 me	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	past	it	me					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he did, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he					mate vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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