Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

Mid tale, what did Satan want done with the crust?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Mid tale

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mid	mid	X	_	2 tale	compound
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 crust	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crust	det
11	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	infinitive · passive		Mid tale				with the crust	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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

Burn it for heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burn	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 heat	case
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	it				for heat	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Give it back to the peasant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 peasant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	it	the peasant				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to peasant=Recipient

Option 3

Eat it in the swamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 swamp	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swamp	det
5	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	it		the swamp			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Sell it at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sell	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 market	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 market	det
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	it		the market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at market=Asset

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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