Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part…

Did the old man use a sharp sword to fix her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: use, fix · To what, where: sharp sword, her

This is test 9 · ★ 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 use	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 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sword	det
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sword	amod
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fix	mark
10	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fix	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	the old man	a sharp sword					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
2	fix	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	her = she					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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 used a blade on her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blade	det
6	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	a blade					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he used a rusty knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
6	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knife	amod
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	a rusty knife					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just breathed on the bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 breathed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 breathed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 breathed	advmod
5	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bits	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bits	det
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breathed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past	he			the bits			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bit=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he used his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	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 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	his hands					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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