Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…

bruh, the priest told someone to go ask who they were, who?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: priest, they · What happens: tell, go, ask, be · To what, where: someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 489 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for any bride goes under the lake» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	xcomp
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ask	ccomp
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 who	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 who	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 who	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 who	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the priest	someone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the priest not said here		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the priest not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	they		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

the merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a neighbor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbor	det
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his laborer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 laborer	nmod:poss
2	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the priest's young laborer from the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laborer	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 priest	case
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 laborer	amod
5	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laborer	nmod

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

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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