Test 7 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…
bro, what did the shepherd stay stubborn about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shepherd · What happens: stay
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 stay | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shepherd | det |
| 6 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | stubborn | stubborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stay | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 stubborn | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · do-support | the shepherd | bro vocative; stubborn property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme what=Location |
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
no toast till he got the princess as his wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 toast | det |
| 2 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 got | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | no toast | the princess | as his wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus as wife=Attribute |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
no toast till he got the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 toast | det |
| 2 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 got | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | no toast | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
Option 3
he refused any toast until the king agreed to the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 toast | det |
| 4 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 refused | obj |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 agreed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agreed | nsubj |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agreed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | he | any toast | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | the king | to the princess | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
no marriage without the crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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