Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Was the Pope's second cure a bit of a wind-up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: second cure

This is test 8 · ★ 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	6 cure	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pope	det
3	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cure	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Pope	case
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 cure	amod
6	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cure	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 up	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 up	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 up	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wind	punct
13	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Pope's second cure					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 was dead serious about curing her with holy words and gentle prayers

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 serious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 serious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 serious	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 serious	amod
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 curing	mark
8	curing	cure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 serious	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 curing	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 words	case
11	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 curing	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 prayers	cc
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 prayers	amod
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 words	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					serious property	tree rules
2	cure	gerund	he not said here	her = she				with holy words and gentle prayers	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source

Option 2

Yeah, he was messin' with the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 messin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 messin	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 messin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 messin	cop
5	messin	messin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 messin	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 messin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	messin				with the King	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he was hacking her up like meat for the King's own dinner table

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hacking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hacking	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hacking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hacking	aux
5	hacking	hack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hacking	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 hacking	compound:prt
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 meat	case
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hacking	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	16 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 table	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 King	case
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 table	amod
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 table	compound
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hack up	past · progressive	he	her = she				like meat for the King's own dinner table	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was hacking her up like meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hacking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hacking	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hacking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hacking	aux
5	hacking	hack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hacking	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 hacking	compound:prt
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 meat	case
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hacking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hack up	past · progressive	he	her = she				like meat	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product

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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