Test 13 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six bro…

the king said come follow me to the town

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: say, come, follow · To what, where: me, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 667 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six brothers show their trades to the king, and he calls them to his counsellors» 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
5	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 follow	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	infinitive				tree rules
3	follow	infinitive		me	the town	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to town=Trajectory

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

nah, he wanted to test their swords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 test	mark
6	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 swords	nmod:poss
8	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	test not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	their swords					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he wanted to see what they could do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	want	past	he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	could	they	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 3

nah, he left them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

nope, they stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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