Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Did the old man get the biggest handful of gold?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: get · To what, where: biggest handful

This is test 4 · ★ 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	5 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 handful	det
7	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 handful	amod
8	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handful	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the old man	the biggest handful of gold					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handful=Stimulus

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

Nah, the Pope was grabbin' whole fistfuls but the old man got a bigger share anyway

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 grabbin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pope	det
4	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grabbin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grabbin	cop
6	grabbin	grabbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 grabbin	punct
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fistfuls	amod
9	fistfuls	fistful	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 got	nsubj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 man	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fistfuls	conj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 share	det
16	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 share	amod
17	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
18	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Pope	grabbin					tree rules
2	get	past	grabbin	a bigger share				anyway property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer share=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the Pope was grabbin' whole fistfuls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 grabbin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pope	det
4	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grabbin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grabbin	cop
6	grabbin	grabbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 grabbin	punct
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fistfuls	amod
9	fistfuls	fistful	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grabbin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Pope	grabbin and whole fistfuls					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the old man was grabbin' huge handfuls while the Pope just watched him all day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 handfuls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grabbin	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grabbin	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grabbin	cop
7	grabbin	grabbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handfuls	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 grabbin	punct
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 handfuls	amod
10	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 watched	nsubj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 watched	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pope	det
13	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 watched	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 watched	advmod
15	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 watched	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watched	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the old man	grabbin		tree rules
2	handful		grabbin			tree rules
3	watch	past	huge handfuls	Pope	day	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, the stranger grabbed more coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grabbed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	nsubj
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 coins	amod
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the stranger	more coins					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

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