Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Pope and the Old Man: the Pope fai…

wait, why did the king wanna hang the doctor, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: wait, do, hang · To what, where: king, doctor

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 487 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Pope and the Old Man: the Pope fails to revive the Princess, is nearly hanged, and is saved by the old man» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	wanna	wanna	PART	_	8 hang	mark
8	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 king	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doctor	det
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 real	case
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	the king	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
3	hang	infinitive	the king not said here	the doctor	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=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

cause he lied, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lied	nsubj
3	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	acl:relcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	he	cause and bro not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cause=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause the princess was still dead, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	fam					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the princess				still	dead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cause the doctor messed up the cure, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 messed	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 messed	nsubj
4	messed	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 messed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cure	det
7	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 messed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cure	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive	the doctor not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	mess up	past	the doctor	the cure and fam					tree rules

Option 4

cause he was lazy, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lazy	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fam	punct
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cause					lazy property	tree rules

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