Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Did the Pope think he'd get off scot-free?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pope · What happens: think, get off · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pope	det
3	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 get	compound:prt
9	scot	scot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 free	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 scot	punct
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the Pope						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get off	would	Pope					free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 reckoned he'd be hanged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hanged	nsubj:pass
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hanged	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 hanged	aux:pass
8	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hange	would · passive		he					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he thought he'd be sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sound	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sound	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sound	aux:pass
8	sound	soun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	soun	would · passive		he					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he knew the Evil One would drag him down to hell for it that very night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 One	det
6	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 One	amod
7	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drag	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 drag	aux
9	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drag	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 drag	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 hell	case
13	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drag	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 night	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 night	nsubj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 night	nsubj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 night	advmod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drag	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	drag down	would	the Evil One	him = he		hell	night		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hell=Destination

Option 4

Yeah, he thought he'd be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 safe	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 safe	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 safe	cop
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	he					safe property	tree rules

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