Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Pope and the Old Man: the Pope fai…

lol the old man keeps asking who ate his loaves, sus right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: keep, ask, eat · To what, where: loaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 keeps	discourse
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 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	xcomp
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asking	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 loaves	nmod:poss
10	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sus	punct
12	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loaves	conj
13	right	right	ADV	_	8 ate	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the old man			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	the old man not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	past		man's loaves and sus	right property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

totally sus, and the king keeps asking who ate them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	totally	totally	ADV	_	2 sus	advmod
2	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 asking	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keeps	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keeps	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asking	aux
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asking	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	past		them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

totally sus, and the Pope keeps saying not me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	totally	totally	ADV	_	2 sus	advmod
2	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keeps	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keeps	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pope	det
6	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sus	conj
8	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keeps	xcomp
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 me	advmod
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the Pope						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Pope not said here	me					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

totally sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	totally	totally	ADV	_	2 sus	advmod
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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