Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…

the merchants chill and let them stay, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchants · What happens: chill, let, stay · To what, where: merchants

This is test 13 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchants	det
2	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chill	nsubj
3	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 let	cc
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 chill	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chill	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 chill	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chill	infinitive	the merchants		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	let	infinitive	the merchants not said here	merchants = merchant	tree rules
3	stay	infinitive	merchants = merchant not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

yep, they said hospitality is a must

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 must	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 must	det
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they	hospitality					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hospitality=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they said it's always your duty to host strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 duty	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 duty	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 duty	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 duty	nmod:poss
9	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 host	mark
11	host	host	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 duty	acl
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 host	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	your duty	always property	tree rules
3	host	to-infinitive	they not said here	strangers		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Beneficiary

Option 3

yeah, they said it's always your duty to take in travelers no matter who they are

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 duty	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 duty	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 duty	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 duty	nmod:poss
9	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 travelers	case
13	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 take	obj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 matter	appos
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 who	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	it	your duty	always property	tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive		travelers		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument traveler=Theme matter=Destination
4	is a	present	travelers = traveler			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they said it's always your duty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 duty	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 duty	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 duty	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 duty	nmod:poss
9	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	your duty				always property	tree rules

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