Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…
Mate, so the Pope was mingin' and didn't even pay Nicholas?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pope · What happens: be, not pay · To what, where: mingin, Nicholas
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pay | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mingin | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 mingin | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pope | det |
| 5 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mingin | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mingin | cop |
| 7 | mingin | mingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | appos |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 mingin | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 Mate | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pay | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 pay | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 pay | advmod |
| 13 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pay | iobj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 pay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Pope | mingin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pay | past · do-support | Nicholas | Mate vocative | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nicholas=Asset |
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
Yeah, he never paid Nicholas a penny, the cheeky git, proper mingin'
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 paid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 paid | advmod |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 penny | det |
| 8 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 git | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 git | det |
| 11 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 git | amod |
| 12 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mingin | punct |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mingin | amod |
| 15 | mingin | mingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 git | appos |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 mingin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay | past | he | Nicholas | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent nicholas=Recipient penny=Asset |
Option 2
Yeah, he got battered with the keys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 battered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 battered | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 battered | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 battered | aux:pass |
| 5 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 keys | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 keys | det |
| 8 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 battered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter | past · passive | he | with the keys | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with key=Instrument |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he battered his picture with the keys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 battered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 battered | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 battered | nsubj |
| 4 | battered | batter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 picture | nmod:poss |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 battered | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 keys | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 keys | det |
| 9 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 battered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter | past | he | his picture | with the keys | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent picture=Patient with key=Instrument |
Option 4
Nah, he gave Nicholas a fat purse of gold and kissed his feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 purse | det |
| 7 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 purse | amod |
| 8 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 purse | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kissed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | he | a fat purse of gold | Nicholas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nicholas=Recipient purse=Theme | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | he not said here | Nicholas's feet | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Co-Agent |
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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