Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

No cap, what did the devil tell the imp to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: devil, cap · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: cap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 491 «Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasant saves his crust, a little demon steals it and then serves him» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tell	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 devil	det
7	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 imp	det
10	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the devil	no cap					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

Go work for him three years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	work			year	for him = he	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location work=Theme

Option 2

Go back to bed now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here				now	to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result

Option 3

Go hide in the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	Go	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Go			the well			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in well=Location

Option 4

Go eat all the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	xcomp
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bread	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	infinitive	you not said here	all bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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