Test 13 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…
honestly, what did the king offer for free to the merchants?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: king offer
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 honestly | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 offer | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | compound |
| 7 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 free | case |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 merchants | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 merchants | det |
| 12 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 free | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king offer | for free; honestly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=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
a gift of silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coins | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coins | compound |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gift | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gift | silver coins | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
no duties on their trade and a feast every single night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 duties | det |
| 2 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 trade | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trade | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 duties | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feast | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | conj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 night | amod |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 duties | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | duties = duty | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
no duties on their trade for the rest of their lives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 duties | det |
| 2 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 trade | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trade | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 duties | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lives | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rest | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | duties = duty | for the rest of duties's lives | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
no duties on their trade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 duties | det |
| 2 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 trade | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trade | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 duties | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | duties = duty | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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